DMIR 409 leads a string of Mintac Loads southward.
Fresh paint on this former maroon DMIR unit. Not too long ago both units would have been maroon.
Evtac crew rerailing a set of DM&IR Ore Cars on a 30 below morning
A vetern SD still earns its keep in Northeastern Minnesota.
Thousands of taconite (iron ore) pellets are flood loaded into a former DM&IR ore car.
Spilled ore needs to be cleared from the loadout before this CN train can load at United Taconite's Fairlane pellet plant.
DMIR 301 and 316 bring raw material from the Thunderbird mine to the pellet plant at Fairlane.
Dumping ore at the pellt plant.
Pulling into the pellet plant at Fairlane.
Southbound on the former DM&IR.
Train of crude ore arrives at the processing plant.
A smoking Unitac train going south
Power up on its way to the Unitac factory
A loaded pellet train departs United Taconite's Fairlane plant under bone chilling conditions (-10F, -35 windchill)