One of Missabe’s late-phase SD9s cruises toward the docks at Duluth at Zim, Minnesota, on September 25, 1994. Number 166 was built in 1959, and still carries the original paint scheme.

A trio of mismatched painted Tunnelmotors slow for their arrival at Fairlane with a train of empty ore jennies.

CN SD60 5411 and CN SD40-2(W) 5351 are up to speed with a short 48 car limestone empty for Proctor.

Limestone loads for Minntac cruise northward on CN's Missabe Sub behind a wild consist of CN 5335-CN5378-CN5337-IC1020.

Four days of rain helped to greatly to lower the fire danger in northern Minnesota. Here Missabe 403 rolls past the site of a small grass fire where the grass is starting to regenerate.

Tax day finds snow falling and CN 5318 leading ore empties north along the CN Missabe Sub for loading at United Taconite on Minnesota's Iron Range.

A clean leader and two BCOL units trailing is reason enough to take a few photos of this limestone train as it creates a mini blizzard over the highway while they cruise track speed up the Missabe... (more)

Snow with blowing and drifting will be possible as the U-71781 from United Taconite rolls down the Missabe Subdivision for Proctor, MN.

Codeline, Bessemer, and Taconite pellets. May not scream Missabe completely, but still shouts US Steel!

A classic all EMD consist and old Missabe ore cars roll south from the mine to Proctor, MN with steaming taconite pellets on a sunny but cold winter day.

With steaming pellets in tow, a U-Tac train bound for Proctor blasts down the mainline in perfect light.

About the only color on this dark and snowy day was the B&LE 904 and it's orange nose rolling down the Missabe Sub at M.P. 51 with the 142 cars of steaming taconite pellets in tow bound for Procto... (more)

Dashing through the snow with a 142 loads..... B&LE 904 heads south out of United Taconite with 142 loads of taconite pellets for Proctor, MN on a snowy Sunday afternoon

The engineer gives DM&IR 210 the throttle and it responds sending exhaust into the air as they leave the United Taconite Fairlane plant heading to Proctor, MN with loads of taconite pellets.