Passing under the former DWP mainline at Munger, MN, DMIR 402 is on the home stretch of it's trip to Proctor yard with taconite pellets from Minnesota's Iron Range.

Under clears skies and cold temperatures, it was smooth sailing on the approximately 75 mile trip from Minnesota's Iron Range down to the entrance into Proctor Yard with 138 cars of taconite pell... (more)

With the tail end of the 138 car train still rattling the old Missabe era steel bridge over the Cloquet river, this U-711 pellet train continues it's trip south towards Proctor, MN.

On a well below zero morning, a loaded taconite train is about a half hour into it's trip from the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant to the yard at Proctor, MN with 138 cars of steaming pellets in... (more)

A trio of tunnelmotors bring empties back from Two Harbors and past the few remaining signals ( long out of service ) that once protected the south Evtac Thunderbird mine spur along the CN Iron Ra... (more)

The once thick morning fog is beginning to burn off now making visibility that much better for the crew of this U-717 pellet train from United Taconite to Proctor. The crew started loading early a... (more)

A trio of former DM&IR SD40-3s lead 139 ore loads south toward Proctor as the season's first snow storm hits.

This has to be one of the odder consists the CN has put together on the former DM&IR property. Golden light provides great contrast to see the brand new set of trucks the DM&IR #402 has just recei... (more)

DMIR 402, DMIR 403 and DMIR 408 sit on the curve for the approach to the CN dock 6 and stare at a red signal, waiting to return to Proctor yard with the empties.

The last shot of an excellent day on the Iron Range yields limestone empties headed to Proctor.

Having been delivered earlier in the year this pair of freshly rebuilt tunnel motors lift ore empties up the southbound main out of Two Harbors. The track the train is on has a 2.9% grade as it di... (more)

With steam curling off it's heavy payload, a trio of tunnel motors head for Two Harbors.

An empty for the Minntac Mine near Iron Mountain is in the siding at Biwabik to meet a loaded rock train that just came out of the Minntac Mine. The rock trains are seasonal trains on the Iron Ran... (more)

Empty ore train rolls towards Minntac.