The cold air (-7 C) combined with the freshly loaded pellets combine to create a rolling fog bank that obscures everything behind the fifth car.

A former IC and two former Missabe motors team up to move 108 steaming loads of Minorca pellets to Two Harbors on a cold first day of 2010. Unfortunately for the crew, delays will mean that they w... (more)

A crude ore train makes it's way from the mine to the processing plant at Forbes, MN this was shot at the the high temp of the day, 5 below zero.

Steaming iron ore pellets travel along the Missabe Subdivision in the new CN/DMIR ore cars. The new cars arrived in late summer of 2009 to replace the aging fleet of Missabe/DM&IR cars

Illinois Central 6259 and Illinois Central 6255 lead 100 loads of raw taconite southward on a cold and crisp midday run towards the processing plant. The train is the same but the look of the for... (more)

A southbound taconite train with steaming pellets in tow starts the trip from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant and will head to U.S. Steel's Fairfield plant and flies by a father and his two boys out hu... (more)

The heat distortion is evident as the three SD40-3's work to keep the 140 loads of steaming taconite pellets moving to their final destination at the dock in Two Harbors, MN.

One of Illinois Central's Death Star locomotives leads 102 loads of raw taconite southbound around the half way point between United Taconite's mine and the processing plant

The new rail is cut to size and ready to go so the track crew prepares for the second broken rail replacement of the day as the temperature for the day reaches a balmy negative 20 below zero with ... (more)

A T-Bird pulls 100 loads of raw taconite southward towards the processing plant of Untied Taconite. The deer hunter is watching the action from his stand at trackside as well.

CN 2300 leads a long southbound stack train down the Missabe Subdivision in the last light of a perfect fall day which also happens to be the first day of the Minnesota deer hunting season and tha... (more)

Possibly the last assignment the DM&IR 211 was on is the Keenan Switch Job. Shown here shoving back into their yard with two empty tanks and a gon. The 211 has now been retired by CN due a major... (more)

DM&IR 210 leads a small train of hoppers back from U.S. Steel's Minntac mine towards Keenan Yard. The 210 was retired by CN in the spring of 2009.

The Keenan Switch Job heads back for the yard and home on a snowy April afternoon. Both of these units, DM&IR 308 and DM&IR 213 have since been retired from the CN roster.

Another 100 dusty loads of raw taconite make the trip south towards the processing plant.