A T-Bird train of taconite rock passes a parked CN freight along the CN Missabe Sub.

It's minus 25 below zero and the sun is not quite above the trees yet but a road crossing provides enough of a clearing to illuminate the head end of this T-Bird train as it makes it's way south f... (more)

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.

Shortly after leaving the yard at Proctor, DMIR 403 races north at track speed up the Missabe Sub. with a string of ore behind them heading to United Taconite to load.

DMIR 403 shoves back to it's train of empty taconite cars to tie on and head north for loading at Cliffs Natural Resources owned United Taconite, BLE 900 and DMIR 211 pull cars and shove cars in ... (more)

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)

It's daybreak on a very cold morning and the fresh baked taconite pellets interact with that wind whipped cold air as the train continues south to Two Harbors.

Zero dark thirty and a minus 26 degrees air temperature as the engineer pulls empties up to the signal to wait for his conductor to drive up and climb into the warm cab where they will tone up the... (more)

Climbing out the Lake Superior basin and away from Silver Bay heading into the sun running through the Superior National forest to Babbitt and the mine to drop off these empties then tying onto a ... (more)

After running light up to Norshor Jct. to pick up bentonite hoppers interchanged by CN, a trio of SD40-3's head back to the plant at Silver Bay while a track worker runs up the east main.

Drifting back down to Silver Bay from the tailing basin.

Quietly rolling down the west main on a cold winter afternoon half way between the mine at Babbitt, MN and the plant on the shores of Lake Superior at Silver Bay, MN.

A cold winter afternoon at M.P. 28 along the NSM mainline finds a loaded taconite train heading east towards the plant at Silver Bay, MN with what can only be described as a unique consist of a pa... (more)