A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)
A duo of BLE tunnel motors lead a T-Bird South through Eveleth.
Winnipeg-Superior train A438 heads south on CN's Rainy Sub approaching the diamond at Ramshaw.
Heavy snow is falling as CN 2107 approaches the road crossing at Highway 7.
An SD60 leading a colorful train of boxcars down from Ranier, MN with a stop and Keenan yard and a destination of Proctor, MN.
Taking the right turn at Shelton Jct. off the CN Rainy Sub, CN 2010 now heads south on the CN Missabe Sub and in a few miles will take a left turn onto the CN Iron Range Sub at Iron Jct. heading f... (more)
Loaded up and pulling about to cross the CN Rainy sub at the Shelton Jct. diamond.
After picking up BFT (crushed taconite rock) loads from Laurentian Aggregates (Gross Nelson) and shoving out of the siding and down where the T-Birds usually roam at United Taconite's north coars... (more)
Heading south with rock from the mine, CN 2111 hits a little sun after crossing over the diamond at Shelton Jct. where the Rainy sub meets the Missabe sub heading for the plant.
Loading rock at the mine on a cold spring day.
Through the fog comes another southbound freight from Canada rolling along the CN Rainy Sub..
BLE duo pulling 114 cars of taconite rock from the mine heading towards the plant about 10 miles away on a cold spring morning.
Day one of the new year and it's the same as day three hundred sixty-five of last year. Cold. The trains are still running back and forth but it's cold out there.
Staged and ready. BLE 906 waits patiently for the green light from the mine before shoving under the coarse crusher to load.
