Anniversary C40-8 leaving UTAC.

DMIR 403 leads cars of taconite rock towards the United Taconite Fairlane plant in Forbes, MN nearly completing the 10 mile trip from the mine near Eveleth, MN. The plant, once owned by the Ford ... (more)

A full moon illuminates a pair of classic searchlight signals and a more modern crossing gate at Forbes along the CN Missabe Sub.

The old searchlight signals at Forbes working to protect train traffic on the CN Missabe Sub main 1 and 2 respectively. Both a northbound and a southbound are currently lined for movement while a... (more)

Damaged in a derailment at Fairbanks, Minnesota in early 2014, CN 6013 was repaired and placed back into ore service. Here it leads a loaded ore train from Minntac past a switch crew that is nursi... (more)

DM&IR ore car 40822 was one of 500 in class U-23 delivered during 1948 from Pullman Standard, five years before the Missabe purchased its first diesels. Still in service for CN, the car still reta... (more)

Loads of raw ore from the T-bird mine make the turn off the north leg at Fairlane as they roll in for processing at United Taconite.

On a unseasonably cold day in northern Minnesota, BNSF 5342 leads a cut of hoppers into the United Taconite property for the loading of pellets. They will then begin the trip to a steel mill in M... (more)

A gloomy day as CN 6020 is in charge of the southbound empties after delivering limestone loads to Minntac.

Ore loads take the curve out of Fairlane for Proctor

DMIR 403 leads the way pulling 141 cars of taconite pellets out of the yard track at United Taconite ( some of which can be seen above the 403 ) and onto the CN Missabe Sub ( foreground ) as they ... (more)

Raw ore T bird, heading to United Taconite.

Happy Halloween! BLE 903 departs United Taconite with empty ore cars on a perfect sunny and warm afternoon.

DMIR 403, DMIR 408 and DMIR 402 lead 141 cars of pellets from United Taconite off the yard track at Fairlane for Proctor while BLE 903 paired with CN 2111 wait on the running track to lead a T-Bir... (more)

Another train of raw taconite rock from the mine to the plant for processing into pellets to make steel.