An unexpected surprise came as these two C40-8M's powered a rail train dumping all along Iron Jct. and the Iron Range Sub. Pity the power wasn't turned...
After coming up from Duluth, MN on the CN Missabe Sub with it's train of Lexington Group participants, DMIR 403 heads out of CN Keenan Yard and makes its way back to Duluth with a gaggle of foam c... (more)
A quartet of Canadian National EMD's lead 145-loads of ore toward Two Harbors, Minn., from Mountain Iron, on a late summer afternoon passing from the Missabe Sub to the iron Range Sub at Iron Jct.
After almost a yearlong shutdown due to soft demand in the iron ore markets, United Taconite has been restarted and so too have the T-Bird trains which shuttle the taconite rock from the mine to t... (more)
The birds fly again! After a more than year long hiatus, trains are once again loading raw ore at the Thunderbird Mine and bringing it to the United Taconite plant. CN #2131 is pretty clean and lo... (more)