IC 6264 gets the green signal to head back to Proctor, MN with taconite pellets as IC 6252 will wait for them to clear before heading back to the mine to load more rock.

Always nice to see trains being led by DMIR engines pulling DMIR ore cars on the Missabe Sub in NE Minnesota. Never mind the CN paint or the trailing Dash 8, that SD40-3 still sounded good as it ... (more)

A trio of EMD's and 138 veteran DMIR ore jennies make their way south on the CN Missabe Sub with pellet loads from U.S. Steel Minntac to the yard at Proctor, MN.

A nice matched set of tunnel motor bodies ease a loaded ore train toward the Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Finding a matched set like this is fairly hard (D... (more)

A loaded taconite train is getting ready to depart the United Taconite Fairlane Plant and head south toward Proctor. Shortly afterwards an empty T-bird will head back north toward the Thunderbird... (more)

Canadian National 3821 races north through Forbes on a warm summer evening.

A southbound T-Bird train crosses over the fast flowing St. Louis river as they near the Fairlane plant with taconite rock. The detector indicated 25 degrees which explains the ice beginning to fo... (more)

A southbound T-Bird train prepares to cross Highway 7 arriving Fairlane with 118 loads of taconite rock for the plant to process.

Loram RG 316 and support crews grinding rail on the CN Missabe Sub at N. Fairlane.

A shiny new member to the CN ore pool on the Iron Range, CN 2015's train is loaded out at United Taconite but problems with the trailing unit will delay their departure back to Proctor until after... (more)

Three IC SD40-3's pull ore loads south on the CN Missabe sub. on a warm late summer afternoon. It's always nice to find some old EMD's plying the rails in an area where CN has turned to GE C40-8'... (more)

DMIR 409 along with IC 6252 pull taconite loads from United Taconite and within a few more feet hit the CN Missabe sub for the run down to Proctor, MN.

Fairlane and T-Bird trains wait to depart for the Missabe Sub.

Departing for Proctor, MN

With fresh snow falling , a trio of DMIR EMD's led by DMIR 409 is getting ready to depart United Taconite for Proctor with fresh baked taconite pellets that will be bound for the dock at Duluth, M... (more)