CN train U70261, the Bessemer iron ore train, rolls south through the frozen swamps of Hartstown on a cold, winter day in March 2013.

With the sound of three EMD 645's screaming in run 8, two Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3's bracing an SD38AC drag a loaded ore drag out of Conneaut Harbor. An unexpected snowstorm that morning foll... (more)

126 miles from Salamanca on the Erie, a southbound Bessemer ore train rolls overhead on the railroads Osgood Viaduct.

Two Bessemer tunnel motors sandwich a CN SD40-2W on the daily ore train bound for North Bessemer. The CN 5245 was brought in to temporarily replace BLE 905, which was damaged in a grade crossing i... (more)

Southbound U-Tac loads roll south for the dock at Duluth.

Southbound U-Tac loads roll south for the dock at Duluth.

Southbound U-Tac loads roll around the connection at Forbes.

DMIR 403 East passes under Rte 666 just west of Allen Jct.

The last Missabe painted tunnel motors heads east by the search lights at the west end of Sparta on its way to Two Harbors.

Thirty minutes out of Fairlane, 717's train picks up speed

Loaded ore train from Fairlane, MN - Duluth, MN

After holding the main at Biwabik and meeting a set of empties, DMIR SD40T-3 408 wastes no time getting its 145 loads on the move.

DMIR SD40T-3s 403 and 404 depart Proctor with ore empties for Fairlane.

BLE 909 leads an empty ore train for Minntac north on the Missabe Sub passing a stopped L568 at Keenan.

BLE and DMIR SD40T-3s 900 and 404 trundle south with 141 loads of taconite for Proctor.