After delivering limestone loads up to U.S. Steel Minntac, CN 2004 moved down to the rock track to spot the empties and attempted to pick up loads of BFT rock, but one car door was open, so they a... (more)
An empty limestone train heads south down the Missabe back to Proctor, MN.
Heading back to Proctor with limestone empties.
A nice spring snow falls on BLE 909 as they head off the Minntac sub shortly and will then run down the Missabe sub back to Proctor with these empty limestone cars.
A neat consist pulling limestone empties down the CN Missabe passing Fairlane while on their way back to Proctor.
BLE 909 leads the way back to Proctor with limestone empties while spring snows fall.
Roaring down the double track section of the CN Missabe sub about to hit the single-track portion at N. Fairlane as the trip south back to Proctor, MN continues for this empty limestone train.
Heading back to Proctor with limestone empties on a cold winter day.
March 12th and it's minus 15 degrees on this fine late winter morning as CN 5337 leads three other EMD products and 58 empty DMIR difco sidedumps down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant about to cr... (more)
Come for the nice selection of EMD's still operating across CN's ore roads in NE Minnesota, stay for the weather.
Cold and clear sailing back to Proctor, MN for these four EMD vets and fifty-eight limestone empties.
Heading south while a DP unit heads north along the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub.
Heading back to Proctor with a mostly empty limestone train on a cold day in northern Minnesota.
A cold day in....northern Minnesota finds BLE 906 and crew coming to the end of the Minntac sub with an empty limestone train bound for Proctor yard after a few hours traveling south down the Miss... (more)
Hitting the CN Minntac sub with limestone for U.S. Steel's Minntac taconite plant.
