Taconite pellets from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant are sailing down the CN Iron Range Sub on a great summer morning led by CN 5337. The pellets will be brought to Fairbanks, MN for a crew change an... (more)
With favorable signals, DMIR 403 takes the light and proceeds to get it's train of crude ore rock from the coarse crusher down to the processing plant to keep United Taconite humming along and mak... (more)
When DMIR 403 leads a train the foam usually comes out of the woodwork to document the occasion. Here is DMIR 403, the last maroon Missabe tunnel motor on the vast CN roster, leading a T-Bird cru... (more)
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)
CN 5338 (SD40-2), CN 5318 (SD40-2W), CN 5349 (SD40-2W) and CN 5244 (SD40-2W) lead 145 empty cars north from Two Harbors for loading at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, MN and will th... (more)