Two very different veterans pull vintage Missabe ore cars.
Rounding the bend with steaming taconite pellets in tow.
IC 6253, CN 5349, DMIR 404 and finally CN 2004 backhaul forty-eight loads of pellet chips and fines down from Minntac after delivering forty-eight loads of limestone to the plant.
After a M.O.W. work window recently expired, three classic EMD SD40-3s with DMIR 408 leading now sits and waits for their turn to enter the CN Missabe Sub to head south while a T-Bird shuttle wi... (more)
Emerging from the fog, DMIR 406 gets on the throttle coming off the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub as they roll towards Proctor, MN with taconite loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plan... (more)
A few minutes before sun sets, IC 6252 sits in the yard at United Taconite waiting while an IC semi-trailer sits alongside. The trailer has been moving along with a tie gang that's been working o... (more)
Coming off the Missabe sub shoving limestone loads back into the United Taconite yard to spot and then pull empties and return to Proctor.
Not much to see on this foggy morning as CN 2007, CN 2013 and IC 6254 roll 145 cars of taconite pellets along towards Two Harbors.
Casting long shadows across the yard as they travel south bound for Two Harbors, MN with taconite pellets.
A TBird mine shuttle with a BLE duo as power heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.
A TBird mine shuttle heads south on a nice spring morning with rock for the plant.
An empty limestone train heads south down the Missabe back to Proctor, MN.
Hot stacks to help relieve the global supply chain issues and shortages move south on the CN Rainy Sub passing through the yard at Virginia, MN.
Was nice to see maroon working Proctor yard again. It was a short-lived stint, but it was nice none the less. She's now back working in Canada.
An all-rail taconite train departing the U.S. Steel Minntac plant located near Mountain Iron, MN the taconite capital of the world.
