On this day the R901 job based out of CN's Keenan yard was tasked with going up to the Mountain Iron yard and retrieving the Plasser & Theurer RM802 High-Production Ballast Undercutting/Cleaning M... (more)
A few miles into the trip and the steam is rolling off the hot taconite pellets as they travel through the minus 15-degree air on the way back to Proctor, MN.
Fresh off North Americas largest taconite operation, U.S. Steel Minntac property, BLE 909 hauls steaming taconite pellets south for Proctor yard and ultimately the storage facility at CN's dock un... (more)
DMIR 404 and IC 6251 are now a set assigned to mine shuttle service from the Cleveland Cliffs United Taconite Thunderbird mine down to their Fairlane plant.