In the last light of the day a UP Coke train heads north on the CN Missabe sub at Fairlane bound for Thunder Bay, ON.

Making the turn off the CN Missabe sub and about to enter the United Taconite property with loads of raw ore are two clean, 15-year anniversary artwork painted dash8s that were taken out of the CN... (more)

Snow continues to fall as blue hour switches to darkness while BLE 906 gets lights to pull iron ore loads from United Taconite and begin the return trip back to Proctor yard.

Hiding a grungy CN GE in the NE Minnesota landscape.

After waiting for a northbound container train to pass, DMIR 400 now has signals to head south out of the yard at United Taconite and begins the trip back to Proctor yard down the CN Missabe sub.

After coming down from Ranier, MN and now having completed their work at Keenan yard, L568 is on the move south with a healthy 400 axels train for Proctor.

A long empty all-rail taconite train slows for the upcoming stop before shoving into Keenan yard where the train will be split and staged until their load time at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant beco... (more)

A pair of DMIR Tunnel Motors and an IC SD40-3 slowly ease forward as they pull the last of their train of ore cars through the loader at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. Once the ... (more)

CN 6255 waits for permission to leave United Taconite and head south to Proctor, MN with a taconite train headed for the Duluth ore dock.

With lights out of the yard and onto the Missabe sub for the trip back to Proctor, three BLE motors start pulling.

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

The first pellets of the new year are loaded into 137 ore cars and ready to go back to Proctor yard behind three BLE tunnels.

U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (more)

A trio of BLE motors pull out of UTAC for the trip south down the Missabe sub to Proctor.

On duty at 0200 at Proctor, this crew departed the yard and ran up the Missabe sub. with their trio of BLE motors and 138 ore cars for loading here at United Taconite. It's now 1000 and traffic ha... (more)