After loading at the U.S. Steel Keewatin taconite plant, the old crew died on hours so BNSF 8228 sits on the outskirts of the town of Keewatin, MN at a bike trail crossing with it's train loaded w... (more)

Taconite pellets hit the Casco main at Kelly Lake just out of the yard.

Taconite pellets leave the yard at Kelly Lake, MN to begin the trip south passing by the old searchlight signal giving them the green to proceed.

Running track speed and wasting no time BNSF 8538 rolls across Highway 5 east of Hibbing, MN as the run back down to Allouez, WI is underway with taconite pellet loads from the U.S. Steel Keewatin... (more)

After loading taconite pellets at U.S. Steel's Keewatin Taconite plant, the train shoves back through town towards Kelly lake before the southbound trip to BNSF's Allouez taconite storage facility... (more)

One hundred eighty cars of taconite pellets weighing in at more than 17,000 tons is on the move from U.S. Steel's Keewatin Taconite through Kelly Lake to the BNSF dock at Allouez, Wisconsin.

A empty ore train rolls past a trackworkers repairing a broken rail on the second mainline. High temps today did not get above zero.