Always nice to see an old veteran plying the rails as they come around the curve and down the hill from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with steaming hot taconite pellets on a cold winter's afternoon... (more)

North from Proctor, MN to load under the west loadout pocket then move over to weigh on the east pocket scale and travelling back south to the yard at Proctor with taconite pellets in tow.

The CN local R901 gets on the move south down the Minntac Sub after finishing work in Mountain Iron, Minnesota. A pair of former IC GP38-2's lead today's train, consisting mostly of BNSF covered h... (more)

Departing Minntac for Proctor with fresh baked taconite pellets that will be bound for the dock at Duluth, MN.

Some nice afternoon light as this trio of GE's lead taconite pellets down the hill from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant and will be traveling to Two Harbors, MN arriving well after dark.

Some nice afternoon light as this 4 pack of EMD's lead taconite pellets down the hill from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant and will be traveling to Two Harbors, MN.

As the daylight for the summer solstice 2019 comes to an end, a flashback to a as cold as it looks afternoon on December 29th 2017 as DMIR 403 leads steaming taconite pellets out of U.S. Steel Min... (more)

A pair of DMIR tunnel motors led a taconite load out of the plant at Mountain Iron

The split second CN 2014 north knocks down the signal at Noimi Jct. as the run to U.S. Steel Minntac continues.

All is quiet along the CN Minntac Sub at Noimi Jct.

After delivering it's cargo of limestone to the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant, the empty leaves the property and heads back to the yard at Proctor.

A pair of CN repainted IC GP38-2's lead local R901 as it heads south out of Mountain Iron on the Minntac Sub and back towards Proctor Yard.

DMIR 402, DMIR 404 and IC 6252 pull 130 loads of taconite pellets leaving the U.S. Steel Minntac property via the CN Minntac sub heading south for the CN Missabe sub that will take them on a sever... (more)

After serving the U.S. Steel Minntac plant by pulling empties and dropping off loads of bentonite, the next stop for the Keenan switch is the small yard at Mountain Iron where they shove back and ... (more)

Departing Minntac under the code blue skies provided by the polar vortex. Temperature was a fresh -28 degrees with an added wind chill.