Going out in a blaze of glory. The final ore train from Evtac's Fairlane plant is stopped at milepost 51 after having started a major brush fire. The crew noticed their units were throwing carbon ... (more)

The old tunnel motors put on a bit of a show at Zim as they race Proctor empties back to Fairlane for reload.

Frost on the grass and steam in the air as DM&IR 407 leads 141 loads of taconite pellets from Minntac's east load-out pocket to the yard at Proctor, MN on a crisp early fall morning.

On September 25, 1994, Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD9 No. 166 leads a taconite ore train toward Proctor at Zim, Minnesota, in a pacing view from parallel Highway 7.

IC 6252 North races Proctor-Fairlane empties through Zim a few miles south of the mine, as a thunderstorm rages to the south. A faint rainbow can be seen to the left of the frame.

With the last rays from a warm January sun slipping away, DM&IR 403 leads the 140 loads of fresh taconite pellets south for Proctor, MN. The windmill in the distance is on U.S. Steel Minntac prop... (more)

It's minus 26 degrees below zero and the wind is coming out of the northwest giving a windchill reading of minus 40 degrees below zero so the National Weather Service issued an extreme weather ale... (more)

Freshly baked load of taconite heads south on the Missabe sub on the first cold day of the new year.

Three IC Operation Lifesaver units thunder through Zim enroute to Proctor. Unfortunate that they no are longer black (thank you taconite dust) and that there is no snow... it was 48 degrees out. C... (more)

The fall colors of NE Minnesota are represented with the reds, oranges and yellows and here comes B&LE 904 to brighten the railfans day and provide a chase south from United Taconite to Proctor, M... (more)

A couple of spotless SD's 415 and 407 head loads south.

After working through the night to load the train with taconite pellets at U.S. Steel Minntac, the crew is racing at track speed to get home just as the sun is coming up on this cold morning.

As the sun rises in the east the taconite pellets from the Iron Range roll south. As the detector states 1 degree this cold morning the train, with two units up front and one DPU on the rear, rol... (more)

After loading 138 of the "classic" DM&IR ore cars with taconite pellets at United Taconite, the engineer aboard Illinois Central 1033 gives a little thottle to get the train moving southward for P... (more)

A loaded all-rail taconite train opens it up on the straight stretch throught the swamp land of Zim, MN and rolls south after getting the track warrant at M.P. 51. on the Missabe Subdivision.