A black and white landscape with some CN red passing through hauling steaming pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant bound for Two Harbors.

A fog and frosty last day of 2022 as a matched pair of anniversary dash 8's move taconite bearing rock from the mine to the plant.

CSX 7541 leads a freight train out of the rail yard in Sumter, South Carolina back in 2012. The locomotive was built new by General Electric for CSX in 1989. CSX sold it to Maine Central in 2017 a... (more)

A quartet of C40-8's have conquered Proctor Hill with a train of Difco's loaded with limestone for Minntac.

A quartet of ex-Chicago Northwestern C40-8's shove to Missabe Junction with limestone loads for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Interlake Steamship Co's "James R. Barker" sits backed onto Dock ... (more)

It's Christmas Eve and throughout the land not a creature was stirring except for the crew on this U789 hauling Minntac made taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors. It was -10 degrees with a nw w... (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.

A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)

A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)

Quite the quick turnaround with these locomotives, many now back on the CSXT roster in 2022. Sometimes they find their way home.

CN C40-8 2111 leads a loaded T-Bird south on the Missabe Sub at North Fairlane.

A CSX coal train bound for the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire is seen passing CPF-307 in Westford passing Boston & Maine Union Switch & Signal searchlights on a chilly December afternoon.

Changing of the guard......CNW 8521 and UP 9294 (both GE C40-8's) rest at the Butler, WI engine house in October of 1995. The UP acquisition is only a few months old at this time so there is still... (more)

The evening sun shines on the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota as a pair of Dash 8's on U73085-04 pull a string a raw ore empties out of the loop track after unloading. Once they get t... (more)

CN 527 with CN 2110 leading is backing up so it can drop cars on Track 29, with grain train CN 874 stopped at right and grain cars on the Transfer Track at left. This would be one of the very last... (more)