A nice spring evening deserves a flashback to the winter of 2021 and a cold February afternoon with a temperature of minus 20 and cold NW wind blowing. KSC 5000 leads the still steaming taconite ... (more)

GTW GP38-2 5847 leads the Keenan switch South through Mountain Iron.

A duo of GTW geeps lead the Keenan Switch South out of Minntac.

CN 3000 brings 100 hoppers of taconite pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant on the almost last day of winter. The crew will yard this first cut at CN Keenan yard, tie onto another 88-ca... (more)

March 12th and it's minus 15 degrees on this fine late winter morning as CN 5337 leads three other EMD products and 58 empty DMIR difco sidedumps down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant about to cr... (more)

Gliding along with steaming taconite pellets in tow.

Steaming pellets rounding the bend as they come down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant on a bitter cold afternoon never gets old.

Steam rolls off freshly baked US Steel pellets on a cold and clear Winter afternoon. CN 2032 and company are in charge of the 20,000 ton train heading back to Two Harbors.

A cold and early morning departure from Minntac with an empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN.

We bake them, You take them. CN 3222, CN 2990, CSX 766 and DP unit CN 2853 come down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant with hoppers full of fresh, still steaming taconite pellets bound for Prince... (more)

The last light on the last day of July with CN 2004 heading up to U.S. Steel Minntac to load pellets off the west loadout pocket.

Two Canadian National ore trains meet one-another near Mountain Iron, MN. The front train is crewless loaded with ore for Duluth while the back one is empty heading for the Arcelor Mittal Minorca ... (more)

CN 2119 takes limestone towards Duluth.

Some early morning fog still hanging around as 15,500 tons of steaming taconite pellets descend the hill from the U.S. Steel taconite plant on this cool forty degree Labor Day.

With it's red nose, GTW 4906 stands out amongst the fog and the frost as the crew switches a tank for a customer.