SD38AC 205 leads SD38-2 No. 211 south towards Fairlane with 99 loads and 2 idler cars.

DMIR 211 south (T-Bird) heads for Fairlane under crisp blue skies on a cold and bitter Monday afternoon. While temperatures stayed steady at -18, the windchills were near -45.

SD38AC 201 rolls through Iron Junction with at T-Bird at sunset. The temperature had dropped down to -15, but with the wind (and standing in the shade) it felt much colder.

The 06:00 T-Bird heads for Unitac as the sun rises on this frigid Minnesota morning.

The Keenan switch job rushes back to Keenan Yd with cars off the interchange track at Shelton Jct. The pair of veteran SD-M's will turn back later in the day returning a cut of cars to Shelton Jct... (more)

Two SD38s haul a loaded crude ore train around the bend at Iron junction and sre enroute for United Tac.

CN 5615 leads a loaded Potash train south on the DM&IR. This train would only make it another 25 miles before getting dinged by the detector at Alborn.

DM&IR 200 leads a crude ore train under the Hwy 37 overpass on it's way to United Taconite in Forbes, MN.

Two of the three remaining Missabe SD-Ms (316/308) lead a short switch job back to Keenan Yard in sub-zero temps.

A pair of veteran Missabe SD38s struggle with 96 loads of crude taconite for Fairlane. Temp on the Forbes detector was a balmy -9F by this time of the day.

A pair of DMIR SD38-2s are in run 8 and cruisin' south on the DMIR mainline en route to the Fairlane Taconite Plant.

An empty T-bird crude ore train is almost lost in the cloud of steam from a passing Minntac pellet train. If it looks cold it was, -6F on a nearby detector.

Loaded ore train for Two Harbors rounds the north leg of the wye at Iron Junction and enters the Iron Range Subdivision.

The Keenan Switch heads towards its namesake yard with commercial traffic picked up at Shelton Junction.

BNSF ore detour for Keewatin Taconite passes through CN's former DM&IR yard at Keenan. BNSF suffered a major derailment of an ore train on its own nearby line.