Humid enough to create that steaming pellets effect on this early morning departure from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant as they travel back to Two Harbors, MN.
Just before things flatten out on the prairies of western Minnesota, a few rolling hills gridded with gravel township roads can be a neat backdrop for trains traversing the Elbow Lake Sub. Like h... (more)
After a mechanical failure to the third member of the typical Dash 8 trio power set used out of Two Harbors, the decision was made to use veteran DMIR 409 to lead a pellet id up to Minntac. She st... (more)
After shoving for all it's worth hauling heavy tailings up from the plant for dumping at the Milepost 7 tailing pond, NSM 650 is gliding back near m.p. 2 on the mainline almost to the plant at Sil... (more)