CN 6017 holds back 145 cars of taconite pellets as they descend the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac and head towards Two Harbors, MN under grey skies, cold temps and fresh fallen snow mixing in with ... (more)

BLE 909 adds to the colors of northern Minnesota as it heads south meeting a northbound stack train on the CN Missabe Sub.

In a scene that could be in the 1980's a pair of untouched SOO units pass the SOO Depot at Odgen Avenue in downtown Superior, WI. These geeps are taking a transfer from Stinson Yard to Rices Point... (more)

Tax day in America finds a trio of new to the former Missabe GE's cutting through a snowstorm with taconite pellets from Minntac heading to Two Harbors.

BNSF 6618 leads a pellet train thru the tunnel exiting Hibbing Taconite and begins the trip to the BNSF dock facility in Allouez, WI as 240 ton haul truck passes above with more taconite rock to e... (more)

The new kids on the block. CN has been looking to replace their aging EMD fleet in the ore pool and this seems to be their solution. These ex-C&NW C40-8s have been modified with straight air cont... (more)

Shortly after leaving the yard at Proctor, DMIR 403 races north at track speed up the Missabe Sub. with a string of ore behind them heading to United Taconite to load.

Zero dark thirty and a minus 26 degrees air temperature as the engineer pulls empties up to the signal to wait for his conductor to drive up and climb into the warm cab where they will tone up the... (more)

From The Land Of Sky Blue Waters. A T-Bird train travels from the mine to the plant on a cold morning in northern Minnesota.

A heavy overnight fog is still present and the sun has just cracked the horizon to start a new day as DMIR 408 comes down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with 96 cars of steaming taconite pellet... (more)

It's a cold day in Cloquet for the BNSF crew as they work to set out their cars for Sappi.

Swinging around the bend and dropping down the hill from the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant, DMIR 403 will be in charge of bringing 145 cars of steaming hot taconite pellets to the dock at Two ... (more)

CN 5610 continues it's trek south at track speed along the CN Rainy Sub at 2050 hours on the first night of winter or the longest night of the year.

A little fog makes for a more dramatic shot of a set of old Missabe searchlight signals still functioning at Sparta, MN. CN is replacing these old veterans of the railroad industry with new "... (more)

The first significant snow event of the season is well underway here on Minnesota's Iron Range. U.S. Steel's Minntac plant is still churning out the taconite pellets and the CN crews are still hau... (more)