Nice sound as three non-turbo SD38 models move a loaded Minntac train towards Proctor. Just enough moisture in the air to make steam off the taconite pellets.
Fresh from the paint booth, 408 leads a sister (400) and an SD38 (202) north with limestone looads for Minntac. There are now 5 former Missabe units repainted (400-402, 404, 408).
Two SD38-2s, 210 and 213, (built 3/75), and SD-M 316 (ex-SD18 186, built 4/60) pull hard on limestone loads bound for Minorca at 1527, just as the sun FINALLY popped out on the engines and the fal... (more)