Humid enough to create that steaming pellets effect on this early morning departure from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant as they travel back to Two Harbors, MN.

Gritty and grimy is the life of a taconite hauler in the CN Two Harbors ore pool.

Taking the turn at Iron Jct. west wye for the trip down the CN Iron Range Sub with a destination of the home terminal at Two Harbors, MN.

Humming along through a winter day with the yard at Two Harbors the destination for these steaming taconite pellets.

Taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors make their way along the Missabe sub and will very shortly make the left turn onto the Iron Range sub for the remainder of the seventy-four-mile trip into to... (more)

It looks calm and pleasant, but it was a cold and windy day as temps were below zero and wind gusts were howling as these loads of taconite pellets make their way down to Two Harbors, MN.

Having to pause here at Allen Jct. for a meet, the signals are now green and it's back on the throttle towards Two Harbors, MN.

More marbles on the way down to Two Harbors, MN.

A frosty fall morning as steaming pellets descend from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant bound for Two Harbors, MN.

Wildfire smoke in the air and wildflower color in the foreground, CN 2041 starts its way back down to the Two Harbors yard and dock.

Less than an hour after sunrise, CN 2029 is just about an hour into their trip to Two Harbors, MN with these steaming pellets made at Minntac and passing through the yard at Biwabik, MN. On the ho... (more)

The almost fluorescent green of the new season's leaves really contrasts the dark storm clouds at 2000 hrs. as CN 2000 rolls 145 cars of steaming taconite pellets between the old mine dumps locate... (more)

CN 2029 runs south along the CN Iron Range sub with 145 cars of steaming pellets on the drawbar racing and pacing some fast moving clouds in the process.

Running back to Two Harbors with some hot commodity.

Steaming pellets for Two Harbors, MN glide through the stuffed Biwabik yard on Thanksgiving morning.