Former DMIR tunnel motor 408 leads two other tunnel motors south past the old depot in Saginaw.

DMIR 408 rolls quietly off CN dock 6 and begins the charge back up Proctor Hill to the yard.

A nice matched set of tunnel motor bodies ease a loaded ore train toward the Fairlane processing plant near Forbes, Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Finding a matched set like this is fairly hard (D... (more)

A trio of EMD tunnel motors ( DMIR 408, BLE 903, DMIR 400) round the curve at Iron Jct. and split the signals heading south on the Missabe Sub with taconite rock from the mine for the plant.

The R921 taking the signal coming off CN dock 6 while notching up to head back up Proctor hill and the yard there while nearing the end of daylight on this the shortest day of the year..

An empty limestone train heads back to Proctor after delivering to Minorca on a dull · drab · uninteresting · flat · dry · banal · bland · insipid · colorless · lifeless · sterile · ted... (more)

Breaking the silence of a still Minnesota landscape, DMIR 408 leads a four pack EMD consist and 145 ore cars at the control point Nugget on the CN Iron Range sub as they continue the trek to Two H... (more)

Always nice to get Missabe era signals and engines together. On duty at 0100 in Two Harbors and arriving at U.S. Steel Minntac at 0500, they began loading at 0530 and finished the last car at 072... (more)

20,000 tons of ore pellets descend the 3% grade into Two Harbors with four veteran EMD work horses on the point.

Running through a black and white tundra, the nose of DMIR 408 provides the color as they run track speed across the frozen landscape.

The morning fog that was so vision restricting a few hours ago has mostly burned off now as the U-791 from U.S. Steel Minntac to Two Harbors cruises track speed passing some CN M.O.W. people inclu... (more)

A heavy overnight fog is still present and the sun has just cracked the horizon to start a new day as DMIR 408 comes down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with 96 cars of steaming taconite pellet... (more)

Taconite loads

After meeting an empty train headed for Minntac from Two Harbors, the engineer throttles up DMIR 408 and they begin to pull 144 loaded ore cars from Minntac through Allen Jct. on the journey back ... (more)

4 tunnel motors are in charge of this empty ore train bound for loading at Minorca Mine on the north side of Virginia. Here the train is between Mt. Iron Jct. and DWP Jct., and only about a mile f... (more)