With stone loads in tow, CN U714 rolls through the swampland outside of Mountain Iron, Minnesota behind a pair of SD40T-3's bracketing an SD40-3 and a C40-8. The train is now on the Minntac Sub as... (more)

A local heads south out of Mountain Iron on the Missabe Sub.

As the thick cloud cover clears away, DMIR 400, DMIR 406 and DMIR 409 call to depart Minntac for Two Harbors with favorable signals for the start of the journey they drop down the hill at m.p. 5 o... (more)

Another triple set running around NE Minnesota garnering a fair amount of attention is this set of former DM&IR units. Here they are coming down from U.S. Steel with steaming taconite pellets in t... (more)

After bringing up limestone from Proctor to the Minntac plant, CN 2039 backhauls a 50-car train of crushed taconite rock (blast furnace trim) as they head back to Proctor.

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

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 900 leads ore empties through Mountain Iron.

One-hundred and thirty-six loads of taconite from Minnesota’s Minntac iron ore operation heads south (eastward) at Mountain Iron toward Two Harbors and a date with a Laker at the ore dock there ... (more)

An all-rail taconite train departing the U.S. Steel Minntac plant located near Mountain Iron, MN the taconite capital of the world.

CN 3137 departs Minntac with a Southbound all rail taconite train.

A cold crisp and refreshing....photo depicting a train descending down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant loaded with fresh taconite pellets that are still steaming away.

CN C40-8 2004 leads a ore train South past a parked Dash 8 in Mountain Iron.

A cold refreshing image back when it was below zero and code blue on New Year's Day compared to the 90 degrees with a dew point at 72 degrees on this last day of spring in NE Minnesota.

A nice but cold spring day finds CN 3000 coming down from the U.S Steel Minntac plant with 100 taconite loads heading for the CN Keenan yard. Once there this crew will tie onto another 88 cars and... (more)

A nice spring snow falls on BLE 909 as they head off the Minntac sub shortly and will then run down the Missabe sub back to Proctor with these empty limestone cars.