A nice late fall afternoon and 3 matching former DMIR engines with 114 DMIR ore cars are hauling rocks to the plant from the mine.

CN 2131 cuts through the heavy snow that's falling across northern Minnesota.

IC 6256, CN 6018 and BLE 903 pull 46 empty ore cars used for limestone service back to Proctor after delivering 46 loads of said limestone up to the Minorca mine.

IC 6252, IC 6251 and IC 6261 lead raw taconite down the Missabe sub through the small community of Iron Jct., MN coming from the mine heading towards the United Taconite processing plant at Forbes... (more)

DMIR 402, DMIR 404, and DMIR 408 (yes three former DMIR tunnel motors together pulling vintage DMIR ore cars in 2020) lead raw taconite down the Missabe sub from the mine heading towards the proce... (more)

Train horns to the left, train horns to the right, here we are at the Ramshaw diamond. A southbound container train at track speed heads down the Rainy sub while GTW 4906 holds back on the Iron R... (more)

Only a few more feet to go before this CN crew ties down their train on the north end of CN Keenan yard. Shortly, a BNSF crew will arrive and take it south from here where it will end up at U.S. ... (more)

Unseasonably cold weather and the first measurable snow of the season greet northeast Minnesota's Iron Range as this empty T-Bird makes their way up main 1 along CN's Missabe Sub from the plant ba... (more)

The first snow of the season falls across northern Minnesota as a T-Bird train hauls 112 cars of taconite rock south towards the plant.

A rare Friday run from Kelly Lake going up to serve the Minorca mine and the run back to Kelly Lake takes this crew through the mostly empty CN Keenan yard. This job makes the run utilizing track... (more)

The Keenan switch job heads back to their namesake yard with BFT (crushed raw taconite rock) loaded at Largo/Thunderbird North. Eventually the product is shipped and ends up at Indiana Harbor (Arc... (more)

After loading taconite pellets at U.S. Steel Minntac, a CN crew delivers a Granite City all-rail ore train to a quiet Keenan yard on a beautiful Friday afternoon. A BNSF crew would arrive later th... (more)

After delivery limestone to US Steel Minntac, CN 2948 heads back down the CN Missabe Sub for Proctor, MN.

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used for limestone tr... (more)

CN is temporarily receiving a number of Union Pacific and BNSF AC locomotives for horsepower payback and two of those BNSF units have found their way to northern Minnesota to be used on T-Bird ser... (more)