U.S. Steel Minntac made taconite pellets head to Proctor, MN behind DMIR 409. Just imagine how good her maroon paint would look in this low winter afternoon light.

A trio of CN C40-8s lead ore loads out of Minntac, approaching Wolf Junction.

On a cold afternoon, three C40-8’s lead a southbound through Wolf on the Missabe Subdivision as they head alongside County Highway 101.

On a snowy Minnesota afternoon, two BLE SD40T-3’s lead the T-Bird south across Highway 7 in Mountain Iron as they head to Fairlane.

What a pair. In a fairly rare occurrence for this job, BLE 906 and BLE 909 are paired up as one set of power for the T-Bird mine shuttles moving rock from the mine to the plant. They look good in... (more)

Come for the nice selection of EMD's still operating across CN's ore roads in NE Minnesota, stay for the weather.

A pair of Dash 8's lead a loaded raw ore shuttle into the evening sun as it approaches Wolf, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane taconite plant. In the distance behind the train, the conducto... (more)

Cold and clear sailing back to Proctor, MN for these four EMD vets and fifty-eight limestone empties.

After a quick trackside crew change, CN 2028, with its 145 cars of steaming taconite pellets in tow, responds to the engineer's throttle commands and starts pulling for Two Harbors.

Southbound for Proctor with steaming hot taconite pellets on a cold winter afternoon.

Heading back to the mine to reload with taconite bearing rock all the while the snow falls.

A cold day in....northern Minnesota finds BLE 906 and crew coming to the end of the Minntac sub with an empty limestone train bound for Proctor yard after a few hours traveling south down the Miss... (more)

Hitting the CN Minntac sub with limestone for U.S. Steel's Minntac taconite plant.

Coming off the CN Missabe sub and onto the CN Minntac sub at Wolf pulling 54 carloads of limestone for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

No matter the weather, well to be honest ridiculous cold really hampers train movements but anything else CN says supply chain disruptions be damned while snow falls as this Q119 container train g... (more)