The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. One of the few reasons the mine shuts down is due to poor weather and there is indeed some weather ... (more)

A loaded limestone train has just crested the 2.2 percent grade of Proctor Hill behind a trio of ex-C&NW C40-8 GEs.

The ground remains damp from a thunderstorm that had just passed over Proctor yard as a limestone train prepares to depart for Minntac.

CN C40-8 2111 leads train U714 south on the Missabe Sub between Iron Junction and North Keenan.

Three of CN's cleanest C40-8s bring an empty (well, mostly empty - a few of the cars wouldn't dump at Minntac!) limestone train south on the Missabe.

CN train U714 enters the tiny bit of TWC territory left on CN's Missabe Sub at Mile 51.

CN C40-8s 2111, 2107 and 2119 haul 59 empty limestone cars through Fairlane on CN's Missabe Sub.

A trio of clean CN C40-8s head through Nomi Junction with a train of 59 limestone empties for Duluth, MN.

Three ex CNW dash 8s wait to move this morning, along with their string of limestone empties.

As the snow is tapering off, a pair of Dash 8's kick up a little of that freshly fallen white stuff while they head back to the mine to reload.

T-Birds have always been relatively easy to catch with them making a 10 mile run about every two hours. Running back and forth mine to plant, plant to mine, day and night, night and day. Here are ... (more)

The fog is thick on this unseasonably warm mid-December afternoon and CN 2111 cuts through it like it was butter while heading north with empties for United Taconites Thunderbird Mine crusher to l... (more)

Raw ore T bird, heading to United Taconite.

Ah, the long shadows of fall. Those very shadows crawl towards the tracks as a T-Bird crawls towards the United Taconite plant with rock.

A nice pair of C40-8's assigned to T-Bird service roll southbound on a nice fall afternoon.