The 214 and 223 depart the Thunderbird Mine crude ore loadout and head towards the processing plant at Fairlane with 97 loads. In the distance another crude ore train waits to be loaded.
A T-bird makes quick work of this crude ore train to Fairlane.
DMIR 214 gets ready to make a run over to Fairlane.
Crude ore for the Fairlane plant rolls south near Eveleth.
Flood loading crushed taconite (iron ore) into a car that is over 50 years old.
Pulling under the ore loadout at the Thunderbird Mine.
An empty 116-car taconite train rolls through the frozen landscape of Northeastern Minnesota.
A Keenan Switch motive power set assists two SD40-3s on a loaded taconite train bound for Two Harbors. One of the tunnel motors wasn't running right, hence the assist.
