Signals to depart the yard and head down to Proctor with taconite pellets out of the United Taconite plant.

A damp and dreary spring afternoon as CN 2040 departs the United Taconite plant with pellets bound for Proctor and ultimately the CN dock 6 at Duluth, MN where they'll be loaded on a boat and head... (more)

Just underway down the CN Missabe sub for a quiet and uneventful trip to the yard at Proctor.

DMIR 400 thunders over the Whiteface River at Kelsey, MN with taconite loads bound for Proctor, MN.

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.

Under darkening skies, IC 6252 has just departed United Taconite and is underway hauling pellets towards CN's Proctor yard on the CN Missabe sub.

IC 6252 pulling taconite loads slows at N. Kelsey where they will sit and wait for a work block to expire up ahead on the CN Missabe sub.

Containers head south from Canada behind a SD70M-2 catching some sun on a mostly cloudy morning.

With a work block ahead, IC 6252 hauling United Taconite pellets and IC 6262 hauling U.S. Steel pellets have pulled even with other and the crews share stories until the block is lifted and they c... (more)

Taconite pellets made at the United Taconite plant start the journey south towards Proctor, MN under more clouds than sun.

One hundred twenty nine loads of taconite pellets start the trip south from the United Taconite plant down the CN Missabe sub to the yard at Proctor, MN behind IC 6252 and DMIR 405.

A few miles into the southbound trip down the CN Missabe sub back to Proctor with fresh pellet loads and a quick look over the shoulder reveals exhaust plumes that United Taconite is still running... (more)

Spring brown season is in full display but the sun was out and a train was moving pellets south on the CN Missabe sub.

Rolling along the CN Missabe Sub which parallels Highway 7 for several miles through the Zim/Sax bog wildlife area, DMIR 409 leads two bigger Dash 8's pulling pellets from United Taconite. With r... (more)

Pulling out of United Taconite with 138 fully loaded ore cars bound for Proctor, MN.