Money money money money....monaaaaaay! The Keenan Road Switch certainly is money for the crew. Not only did it take them 2 hours to go 5 miles, but they get a 4 man crew, unheard of in todays worl... (more)

The Keenan Road Switch finished up delivering bentonite hopers to Minntac and now work on picking up some log cars out of the small yard at Mountain Iron before heading back to Keenan Yard.

Somewhere under all that steam is a fresh batch of taconite pellets heading Two Harbors.

A C40-8 duo with CN 2112, and it's special paint scheme promoting 15 years of privatization, leads CN 2131 and classic Missabe ore cars down the hill from Minntac with fresh taconite loads.

One hundred thirty eight loads of fresh taconite pellets in shiny new ore cars steam their way down off the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac being lead by a trio of SD40-3's on the way to Two Harbors.

A timeless classic on the Iron Range for every railfan that comes here to shoot train pictures. The Highway 169 overpass shot of steaming pellets coming down the hill fresh from the furnaces of U... (more)

BL&E 909 departs Minntac with loads for Two Harbors.

A load of steaming taconite pellets leave the Mintac plant at Mountain Iron behind SD38-2 No. 211 (which, despite the CN paint, is pure Missabe underneath). These are the new ore cars recently pu... (more)

The last Missabe painted tunnel motor departs Minntac for Two Harbors on a beautiful October afternoon.

After the heavy snows the sky clears out and the tempurature drops as the cold Canadian air moves in. An Illinois Central Deathstar leads 120 loads of steaming pellets down from the U.S. Steel Mi... (more)

Starting it's career hauling ore for the Duluth, Missabe & Northern as DM&N 64 it was then renumbered to 806 when the Oliver Iron Mining Co. took ownership and moved it to Mountain Iron to move or... (more)

While sister 8895 leads 140 BNSF ore cars north on the Missabe Subdivision sister 8811 shoves on the rear. This will be the second train to load at CN-served Minntac and deliver its train to BNSF'... (more)

Another 120 loads of taconite pellets head down the hill from Minntac, visible in the upper right, bound for the dock at Two Harbors, MN

On a cold early spring day the only color on the northern Minnesota landscape was this trio of matched BNSF units leading 106 unmatched hoppers of taconite pellets coming off the hill at U.S. Stee... (more)

Coming down the mountain with 102 loads of taconite pellets from Minntac bound for Gary on a great 50 degree above zero day in northern Minnesota.