A spring snow storm allowed a winter-like shot of steaming Minntac loads.
Great afteroon light at Gilbert.
DMIR 410, ex-Southern Pacific 6771, with an empty ore train at Allen Junction, on the DM&IR (now CN) Iron Range Subdivision.
Empty 02:30 Minntac limestone train arrives back at Proctor and passes under new CTC signals.
Taconite pellets hot out of the UNITAC Fairlane facility at Forbes, MN. Heading for Proctor and Duluth docks.
Ore loads decend the long grade into Two Harbors behind a pair of 400s.
Ore empties cross over the hibernating North Shore Scenic Railroad.
Missabe 410 bucking snow drifts at Highland.
Steaming pellets about to head under the bridge at Wyman.
Two former Missabe SD40-3s and a cut of bentonite hoppers at a nearly empty BNSF Rices Point Yard.
Ore loads head towards Duluth.