The Kelly Lake local crew with a pair of green SD40-2s move south thru the yard with loaded gondolas of scrap steel and empty bentonite hoppers while passing KD Jct. which is the split BNSF uses t... (more)

Before departing back to the mine to reload, DMIR 400 has to wait for a pellet loader out of Proctor to clear first.

Late afternoon low light during a winter's day with the shadows starting to get long as the sun is well on its way to setting.

Hauling a train of dry ice or hot taconite pellets. Doesn't matter, can't see it anyway.

After departing the Minorca taconite plant and dropping down the southside of the Laurentian Divide, CN 2010 applies the throttle going across the yard at Virginia with 144 cars loaded up with ste... (more)

With Minntac partially visible in the distance, IC 6252 makes its way down the Minntac sub with a destination back to the yard at Proctor, MN.

After a meet here at Kelsey, MN with a northbound it's time to get back on the move south towards Proctor yard for these steaming taconite pellets. The nearby detector for the northbound rattled ... (more)

The wind was whipping as this empty ore train ran across the open yard at Biwabik along the CN Iron Range sub.

Kicking up some fresh snow, fairly clean CP 8025 along with KCS 4064 lead a unit train of empty crude oil cans north on the CN Rainy sub passing through the former DWP yard at Virginia, MN on a co... (more)

Fresh. Rumor has it these factory fresh rebuilds will be the power on ore trains across NE Minnesota replacing the Dash 8's and the older EMD products that are plying the rails today.

Rolling south along the CN Missabe sub as the sun sets. That plume on the horizon is the U.S. Steel Minntac plant where this train originated about an hour or so previous.

And then sometimes the train comes into view long hood forward. Oh well. They were pulling five DME hoppers though.

Heading back to Proctor traveling down the CN Missabe Sub.

Hot taconite loads in the pre-dawn cold air.

A nice morning heading back down to Proctor from the Iron Range with the empty limestone cars.