Taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors make their way along the Missabe sub and will very shortly make the left turn onto the Iron Range sub for the remainder of the seventy-four-mile trip into to... (more)

CN 2107 and 2112 lead a loaded T-Bird through Wolf.

After a brief pause to allow the passing of a southbound container train on the Rainy Sub at the Ramshaw diamond, it's back on the move again along the Iron Range sub for this U790 going to load t... (more)

A pair of C40-8s with 15th anniversary logos lead a loaded T-Bird through the freezing fog at Iron Junction.

West Haven Station is a favorite location of mine to shoot at because of the great lighting. On the night of Thursday, January 5, 2023, Providence Worcester train CHFP to Fresh Pond Yard in Queens... (more)

In 2011, CSXT B20-8 #5955 is at the south end of a yard on a train going through some switching moves. CSX 5955 ws built in 1988 as Conrail (CR) #5071, a GE B40-8.

A black and white landscape with some CN red passing through hauling steaming pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant bound for Two Harbors.

A fog and frosty last day of 2022 as a matched pair of anniversary dash 8's move taconite bearing rock from the mine to the plant.

CSX 7541 leads a freight train out of the rail yard in Sumter, South Carolina back in 2012. The locomotive was built new by General Electric for CSX in 1989. CSX sold it to Maine Central in 2017 a... (more)

A quartet of C40-8's have conquered Proctor Hill with a train of Difco's loaded with limestone for Minntac.

A quartet of ex-Chicago Northwestern C40-8's shove to Missabe Junction with limestone loads for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Interlake Steamship Co's "James R. Barker" sits backed onto Dock ... (more)

It's Christmas Eve and throughout the land not a creature was stirring except for the crew on this U789 hauling Minntac made taconite pellets bound for Two Harbors. It was -10 degrees with a nw w... (more)

It looks calm and pleasant, but it was a cold and windy day as temps were below zero and wind gusts were howling as these loads of taconite pellets make their way down to Two Harbors, MN.

A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)

A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)