It was as cold as it looks.
After a meet here at Kelsey, MN with a northbound it's time to get back on the move south towards Proctor yard for these steaming taconite pellets. The nearby detector for the northbound rattled ... (more)
Hot taconite loads in the pre-dawn cold air.
The elements all lined up for a spectacular show of steam on the CN U717 loaded taconite pellet train as it departed Fairlane Pellet Plant on the way to Proctor. The right negative degree tempera... (more)
Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.
It's a balmy fresh minus 34 degrees as this train heads south with steaming taconite pellet loads from the Minntac plant bound for the yard at Proctor, MN. The cars on the road were filled with &... (more)
A trio of BLE's (BLE 900, BLE 903, BLE 909) make their way back to the yard at Proctor after delivering and dumping limestone up at the Minntac taconite plant.
After dumping limestone at Minntac, a trio of BLE's come down from the plant with their train in tow.
A rolling steam bank down the Missabe sub behind BLE 900, CN 5338 and IC 6253 and pulling DMIR/Missabe ore cars loaded up at the United Taconite facility. The exhaust plume is from said facility ... (more)
Repainted BLE tunnel motor 900 leads ore empties through Iron Junction.
Repainted BLE tunnel motor 900 leads ore empties through Mountain Iron.
B&LE EMD units 900, 905 and 906 have left a northbound coal train just beyond KO Junction and now run light back to Greenville. The train had come up the new line from Kremis that bypassed Greenvi... (more)
An empty T-Bird makes its way back north to the mine to reload after leaving the plant and meeting it's loaded counterpart along the CN Missabe Sub.
A loaded taconite train kicks up some fresh snow along with steam from the warm pellets.
A post Christmas snow storm blanketed most of Minnesota with a fresh layer of snow. BLE 900 pulls a loaded train of steaming taconite pellets.
