Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll across the big steel bridge over Cloquet river passing below a giant white pine as they keep moving on towards the yard at Proctor,... (more)

DMIR 404 and IC 6251 are now a set assigned to mine shuttle service from the Cleveland Cliffs United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane plant.

One rail, two sails. DMIR 404 dumps Minntac pellets on Dock 6, high above the Walter J. McCarthy which was loading nearly 60,000 tons of ore destined for Gary, IN while the CN owned Great Lakes Fl... (more)

A TBird mine shuttle heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.

Repainted DMIR 404 leads a T bird South at Wolf.

Pulling off the CN Missabe sub and heading into the United taconite property with rock from the mine with a good-looking pair of DMIR locomotives and 114 DMIR ore cars.

Always nice seeing DMIR locomotives and DMIR ore cars on the Missabe sub.

Coming off the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub and onto the connecting track for the turn into United Taconite with carloads of rock with DMIR 404 and sister DMIR 406 in charge on this ... (more)

Taking the left turn off the Missabe sub and into the United Fairlane property delivering rock from the mine.

DMIR 404 and sister DMIR 406 are currently paired up to move rock from the United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane processing plant 113 cars at a time. Seen passing the former DMI... (more)

Some snow is falling as DMIR 404 blows the horn about to cross through the Highway 7/ Highway 101 intersection heading north back to the mine to reload.

Pounding along the Missabe Sub in the snow pulling ore cars.

Snow is falling as an early spring weather event is happening across northern Minnesota while DMIR 404 and DMIR 408 have everything under control as they storm north up the CN Missabe sub at Iron ... (more)

Fog and snow shroud the area but DMIR 404 sticks out like a sore thumb with its brand recognition logo leading a T-Bird loading at United Taconite.

DMIR 404 leads a T-Bird train down the CN Missabe sub past the old DM&IR era building at Iron Jct. on a ridiculous cold winter's day. This building is a point just north of Keenan yard that used ... (more)