Keenan Switch has just descended Minntac Hill and the conductor gives the engineer hand signs to make the cut, as they will head into Mt. Iron to grab some pulpwood cars. GT 6221 was a nice sight ... (more)
The engineer slowly descends the 1% grade preparing to bring this cut of cars to a stop so the conductor can line the switch for a shove back and onto the first cut of cars before leaving for Two ... (more)
Coming down the 1% grade from U.S. Minntac's taconite plant, DMIR 403 glides under the Highway 169 bridge as the run to Two Harbors now begins in earnest.
Illinois Central 1000 comes down the hill from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant with a second cut of loads of blast furnace trim. The train will double onto their first cut, which they shoved into the ... (more)