A pair of ES44AC's (CREX 1504 and CP 8828) kick up some fresh snow as they race north for the Canadian border passing thru the former DW&P yard (now CN) at Virginia running track speed in the prep... (more)

An empty taconite train rounds the curve into the late afternoon sun as they head back from Two Harbors to load at U.S. Steel, Minntac.

A T-Bird leaving the United Taconite coarse crusher load-out for the plant passes by a new neighbor, former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 which was delivered recently here to Minnesota's Iron Ran... (more)

Former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 was picked up in Livingston, MT by BNSF and delivered to CN who then delivered it here to Minnesota's Iron Range where it was re-lettered to NSHX (North Shore... (more)

A dozen newly refurbished ballast cars that were re-done at the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Repair facility sit on a spur track waiting to get that new paint scratched during the first load... (more)

After dumping 58 cars of limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac, the crusty faded veteran CN 2408 leads the charge back to Proctor, MN.

DMIR 402 heads railroad north into the afternoon sun on the way back from Two Harbors while pulling 140 ore jennies for loading at the Minorca mine facility before returning "home" to Tw... (more)

With the snow tapering off, CN 6021 runs north taking the turn on what was the former DM&N, then DMIR and is now the CN Iron Range Sub passing the grade of the former D&IR which was abandoned in 1... (more)

As the winter sun dips fast towards the horizon and a few hours after coming by with loads and trailing, NSM 661 now finds itself as the leader heading inland from Lake Superior and the plant back... (more)

The tailings trains drifts back around the S curve at M.P. 6 as they head back to the plant to reload then make the trip back up the grade once again.

The morning loads of taconite rock continue towards the plant while the tailings train waits for them to clear and will wye the train before returning to the plant at Silver Bay.

Day one of the new year and the leader of the morning loads train from the mine down to the plant matches the sky. A good day in the land of sky blue waters.

Kicking out carbon to the sky and tugging on the trailing ore cars, IC 6251 and crew continue on towards Two Harbors, MN.

Rolling through the small community of Skibo, MN. The station at Skibo was named after Skibo Castle, the Scottish summer home of Andrew Carnegie. The site was the location of a sawmill that opera... (more)

Into the setting sun rolls a taconite train from the ArcelorMittal owned Minorca mine. The mine and aprrox 350 employees produce about 2.8 million tons of fluxed iron-bearing pellets, and mines ab... (more)