IC 6251, the white strip, leads loads of taconite pellets south down the CN Missabe from U.S. Steel Minntac at dusk to the yard at Proctor where they will arrive in darkness.

Cutting through the cold winter's air with hot taconite pellets from Minntac bound for Proctor.

A trio of EMD power lead 136 cars of pellets south down the CN Missabe Sub for Proctor on a clear winter day. It looks like these EMD's days are numbered as CN has began replacing these older EMD... (more)

After throwing the switches, the all EMD consist led by DMIR 402 comes into Proctor and will yard the train and cut off said power and tie down.

Following a T-Bird train carrying loads of taconite bearing rock and a empty limestone train from the Minntac plant DMIR 409 completes the cycle with it's train of finished product, the taconite p... (more)

Taking favorable signals at Fairlane, DMIR 409 gets up to track speed with it's train of marbles. They will cruise along for a 15 miles or so before taking the siding further down at Kelsey for a ... (more)

DMIR 402 slows to a crawl as they approach Proctor Jct. and the end of the line at Proctor yard for this train.

DMIR 402 thunders along with its train of steaming pellets and will shortly pass the Missabe era Saginaw depot which is surprisingly still standing trackside.

DMIR 409 rumbles south on the CN Missabe Sub after departing U.S. Steel Minntac. They will encounter several northbound CN freights along their way back home to Proctor, MN and the yard.

Passing under the former DWP mainline at Munger, MN, DMIR 402 is on the home stretch of it's trip to Proctor yard with taconite pellets from Minnesota's Iron Range.

Under clears skies and cold temperatures, it was smooth sailing on the approximately 75 mile trip from Minnesota's Iron Range down to the entrance into Proctor Yard with 138 cars of taconite pell... (more)

With the tail end of the 138 car train still rattling the old Missabe era steel bridge over the Cloquet river, this U-711 pellet train continues it's trip south towards Proctor, MN.

On a well below zero morning, a loaded taconite train is about a half hour into it's trip from the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant to the yard at Proctor, MN with 138 cars of steaming pellets in... (more)

As the snow comes down on the northern Minnesota landscape the taconite pellets continue to come down as well from the Iron Range to Proctor to Duluth to a steel mill. Here CN 5244 charges southb... (more)

Under what is commonly referred to as "Code Blue" skies, CN 6013 works on getting up to track speed after holding for two northbound freights on the CN Missabe Sub. Southbound taconite ... (more)