Typical fall day across northern Minnesota except for the trio of BLE's adding a little color.

Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll south towards the yard at Proctor on a nice fall day.

Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll across the big steel bridge over Cloquet river passing below a giant white pine as they keep moving on towards the yard at Proctor,... (more)

That low winter light looks good plastered on the side of this all EMD power set and ore cars complete with a little bit of steam rising as the cold air mingles with the fresh taconite pellets.

Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.

It's a balmy fresh minus 34 degrees as this train heads south with steaming taconite pellet loads from the Minntac plant bound for the yard at Proctor, MN. The cars on the road were filled with &... (more)

About to come off the Iron Range sub, CN 2020 takes the signal at east wye and will continue the trip up to Minntac to load taconite pellets.

On this day the R901 job based out of CN's Keenan yard was tasked with going up to the Mountain Iron yard and retrieving the Plasser & Theurer RM802 High-Production Ballast Undercutting/Cleaning M... (more)

Taconite bearing rock rounds the bend just south of Iron Jct. MN on a cold but clear winter day.

A few miles into the trip and the steam is rolling off the hot taconite pellets as they travel through the minus 15-degree air on the way back to Proctor, MN.

Fresh off North Americas largest taconite operation, U.S. Steel Minntac property, BLE 909 hauls steaming taconite pellets south for Proctor yard and ultimately the storage facility at CN's dock un... (more)

DMIR 404 and IC 6251 are now a set assigned to mine shuttle service from the Cleveland Cliffs United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane plant.

The calm and quiet of nature is disrupted for a few moments by 598 axels of a CN ore train then it's back to calm and quiet again.

Catching just a few muted rays from the sun triple IC SD40-3's roll along with their train of ore cars hauling taconite pellets in tow and the yard at Proctor, MN as the destination.

Taking the turn at Iron Jct. west wye for the trip down the CN Iron Range Sub with a destination of the home terminal at Two Harbors, MN.