The two man crew of Laurentian Aggregates uses this former Southern Pacific GP35 to spot cars for loading blast furnace trim or RR ballast made from crushing waste taconite rock on United Taconite... (more)

The engineer keeps a close eye on the foam trackside as his train heads towards Two Harbors, MN with 116 loads of freshly baked taconite pellets that are still steaming away in the fall air.

Built in 1975 and aquired by the former Missabe that same year, DM&IR 211 shows it's age. However it was the major failure with the main generator the sealed the fate of the 211 and so after 34 y... (more)

A T-Bird pulls 100 loads of raw taconite out of Largo to begin the ten mile trip to the processing plant as the next T-Bird positions itself to get ready to load just above the rear of the departi... (more)

A T-Bird pulls 100 loads of raw taconite into the sunset.

It's funny to see the only SD38-2 of the former Missabe to receive a trip to the CN paintbooth paired up with the only SD40-3 tunnel motor of the former Missabe to NOT receive that same trip. Pic... (more)

A rare North Shore Mining SD28 working it's way back towards home rails from rebuild at NRE. Cleanest it will ever be as soon it will be hauling taconite rock from the mine in Babbit to the plant... (more)

As the light of day starts to disappear and the long shadows of evening emerge, B&LE 909 and crew prepare to depart Largo and head to Fairlane with 100 loads of raw taconite.

You can almost hear a cry for mommy as EJ&E 665 sits alone in the small yard with it's back to the thunderstorm that's moving in.

CN's Track Geometry Car, a retrofitted Budd RDC car, doing track inspections on CN"s Rainy Sub. south of Virginia, MN

DM&IR 212 and DM&IR 403 come down the CN Rainy Sub light power after spotting gondola loads to be interchanged with CN. DM&IR 212 still sports a clean paint job mostly because of it's lack of use... (more)

A trio of former Missabe units leads a southbound iron ore train. The three units, SD40-3's DM&IR 400 and 404 and the SD38-2 DM&IR 212, once wore the maroon and gold of the former Missabe. Now i... (more)

The last SD-M on the former Missabe fleet, DM&IR 308, leads an empty T-Bird back to Largo. The DM&IR 308 has now officially been retired from the active CN roster as of March 21st, 2009 bringing ... (more)

After leaving Arcelor Mittal's Minorca Mine, DM&IR 403 DM&IR 215 and I.C. 6255 and I.C. 6265 lead 130 loads of iron ore down CN's Missabe Subdivision and will head to Two Harbors, MN.

DMIR 215 and repainted DMIR 212 pull 96 loads of raw taconite out from under the coarse crusher load out at United Taconite on a cold sub-zero Minnesota morning.