It's a cool minus eleven degrees and the wind chill is about minus 30 degrees or so and this U-717 from United Taconite is loaded out and ready to depart for Proctor at just about sunset on a Dece... (more)

The very faded "Safety First" sign on the diesel shop wall is about the only remains of the former Missabe road left here at Proctor, a town built by and for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range ra... (more)

A trio of veteran EMDs ease ore loads down Proctor Hill towards Dock 6.

You can see the curvature of the earth from up here. A short T-Bird train comes into the United Taconite coarse crusher for loading. CN and the mine were doing a test to see whether three shorter ... (more)

Color provided by CN on this dark, rainy, foggy afternoon on Minnesota's Iron Range as the pellet trains roll on.

A dark and gloomy afternoon with rain and fog seems fitting as a IC death star leads 140 empty cars bound for U.S. Steel Minntac to load taconite pellets.

The engineer on board IC 6251 handles the controls while the conductor sits in his little shack keeping tabs on the action and looking for problems trackside as the mine employees working the crus... (more)

5 years ago the hold maroon had on the Missabe was dealt a death blow by former IC SD40-3's arriving on property. No complaining now, but it sure is different.

IC 6251 is about to pound the diamond with the DWP at Ramshaw with 140 loads for Two Harbors.

One of the few IC deathstar's still running pulls 140 loads through Iron Junction for Two Harbors.

The death stars soldier on hauling ore as the IC 6251 leads a sister and newly painted SD40-2W north on a slow moving empty for U-Tac

Coming down from U.S. Steel Minntac with 135 loads of steaming taconite pellets heading for Proctor, MN and ulimately the docks on the shores of Lake Superior.

A few wisps of steam can still be seen as taconite loads come to a stop short of the scale in proctor. DMIR 215 (still in marron) is paired with DMIR 211 working a cut of cars at the west end of ... (more)

Illinois Central 6251 makes it's way across the Iron Range as the sun makes it's way over the horizon. This train will head to U.S. Steel Minntac for loading the 135 trailing cars with taconite p... (more)

A matched pair of IC SD40-3s leads a train up Proctor Hill as an ice-free Lake Superior shows off its deep blue color.