Rolling south towards Proctor with Minntac pellets.
One of the repainted CN tunnel motors leads steaming taconite loads around the curve and onto the main at Wolf Jct.
Loaded ore train for Two Harbors rounds the north leg of the wye at Iron Junction and enters the Iron Range Subdivision.
A loaded taconite train has just departed the Minntac plant with 116 loads for Two Harbors behind repaint 406.
DMIR 406 (rebuilt ex-SP SD45T-2 6768/SP 9501/SP 9171) leads taconite pellet loads from the UTAC pellet plant at Fairlane, MN bound for Proctor and Duluth docks. DMIR 406 is one of the most recent ... (more)
All three models remaining on the Missabe roster are represented by this consist approaching the small town of Kelsey.
Freshly washed 406 leads Minntac loads through the empty yard at Biwabik, once a very important ore gathering yard on the DM&IR, now just used for meets.
The cab of DMIR 406 which was having lots of problems on this evening!
Ore loads meet empties at Biwabik.
As Duluth native Bob Dylan one sang - The times, they are a-changin'
Light engines from Proctor decend Steelton Hill with freshly washed 406 leading.
DMIR 406 heads trio of Missabe engines switching a limestone train at Lake Head.
Last rays of sun for this limestone northbound to Minntac
Three big 400s have no trouble handling 25 loaded cars of limestone up Proctor Hill in fresh snow.