Cold. Clear. Refreshing. That's what it was as IC 6264 departed Minntac with pellets for Proctor yard.

A local from Finley Yard heads down the passenger main to work CMC Steel, passing the stacks & old Baldwin switcher at Sloss Furnace.

A yard job works all day at CSX Parsons Yard (ex-Chesapeake & Ohio).

CSX Y103 at the Seaboard Air Line Depot in Charlotte

Heading north along the CN Missabe Sub to load taconite pellets at the Cleveland-Cliffs owned United Taconite plant.

Repainted IC SD40-3 6253 leads the Rainer local South through the Zim/Sax bog.

Repainted DMIR tunnel motor leads ore loads South into the yard in Proctor.

Repainted DMIR tunnel motor leads ore loads South through Munger.

The DMIR 409 leading an empty pellet train up to Minntac to load. The EMD veteran was called into service when one of the Dash 8 units had an issue and was pulled out of the lineup.

After a mechanical failure to the third member of the typical Dash 8 trio power set used out of Two Harbors, the decision was made to use veteran DMIR 409 to lead a pellet id up to Minntac. She st... (more)

After shoving for all it's worth hauling heavy tailings up from the plant for dumping at the Milepost 7 tailing pond, NSM 650 is gliding back near m.p. 2 on the mainline almost to the plant at Sil... (more)

After hauling limestone up from Proctor to the Minntac mine, IC 6253 is backhauling 48 loads of chips and fines from the mine and shoving them into the yard at Keenan.

IC 6260 hangs out at the yard in Two Harbors waiting for its next assignment which is most likely a MRF (miscellaneous road freight) trip over to Keenan yard later on.

Canadian Pacific B92-25, better known as the "Run 20" job, sees double within an unassuming pool of residual rainwater as it trundles through Kansas City's West Bottoms District. A sharp pair of s... (more)

Heading south from the mine to the plant with rock that will be processed into taconite pellets.