Emerging from the fog.

Short winter days and low afternoon sun as a T-Bird heads back to the mine to reload.

The early morning sun lights up the fall colors on the trees as Wheeling and Lake Erie 3102 and 3016 head south out of Rook yard. Once they reach the end of the yard the conductor will align some ... (more)

RCPE 3482 leads the LBFRC along the Black Hills with a train of bentonite clay loads. At Rapid City they will swap out their train for empties to eventually be ordered and loaded at Colony, WY.

RCPE 3482 leads the LBFRC along the Black Hills with a train of bentonite clay loads. At Rapid City they will swap out their train for empties to eventually be ordered and loaded at Colony, WY.

With dust blowing off the empty ore jennies, DMIR 402 brings them back to the mine for loading on a late winter's afternoon.

A loaded taconite train ducks under the Rainey Sub at Munger on the way south to Proctor.

The last remaining white-sill IC SD40-3 meets a pair of DMIR SD38's at the bottom of the hill in Proctor.

DMIR 409 leads ore loads South over the Whiteface River bridge in Kelsey.

Heavy snow is falling as the 1500 T-Bird pulls up to the signal at the United Taconite coarse crusher loadout.

With the return of the cold weather, CN has resumed using the Difco side dump cars for limestone service to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Here a mixed bag of power comes off the Minntac Sub and d... (more)

Steaming taconite pellets blend into the fog that's rolling across the yard as IC 6254 begins to pull out of United Taconite and head down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

This ex. Southern Pacific SD45T-2, rebuilt as an SD40T-3 and now running as DM&IR #405 is passing through Iron Jct., Minnesota with a train of raw taconite ore. They are headed to the Fairlane pe... (more)

The Northshore Mining Railroad runs 47 miles from the open pit mine at Babbitt, Minnesota to the huge mill and plant facility on the shore of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Raw ore is hauled down th... (more)