Illinois Central 6256, an SD40-3 is shoving a loaded taconite pellet train onto the 1918-built Dock 6. This locomotive was built by GM Electro-Motive Division in LaGrange, Illinois in November 197... (more)

Illinois Central 6256, an SD40-3 is shoving a loaded taconite pellet train onto the 1918-built Dock 6. This locomotive was built by GM Electro-Motive Division in LaGrange, Illinois in November 197... (more)

Some freight and passenger power await various stages of work at ACWR's Candor shops.

Aberdeen Carolina & Western train 200 in Biscoe

A loaded U711 taconite pellet train is seen coming from the Mintac mine at Zims with a solid set of tunnel motors leading the loaded Jennies. The Bessemer & Lake Erie is a fan favorite on the Miss... (more)

CSX 4043 is running long hood forward as it brings a long string of doublestack and intermodal cars south across the Saint Johns River bridge and towards the Florida East Coast Bowden yard.

A loaded U711 taconite pellet train is seen coming from the Mintac mine at Zim with a solid set of tunnel motors leading the loaded Jennies. The Bessemer & Lake Erie is a fan favorite on the Missa... (more)

A loaded U711 taconite pellet train is seen coming off the Minntac Sub at Nomi Junction with a solid set of tunnel motors leading the loaded Jennies. The Bessemer & Lake Erie is a fan favorite on ... (more)

A push pull tandem with NSM 650 and NSM 653 lug heavy wet coarse waste rock up from the plant heading to their Milepost 7 tailings basin to unload before returning back to the plant to reload.

DMIR 408 leads two other tunnel motors and an empty taconite pellet train over the Cloquet River Bridge and back to the Iron Range to be reloaded.

As the rapidly setting sun casts long shadows in the massive cut at Fairplay, Ohio, a trio of Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40's scream around the bend with train 21 in tow. This WLE train is currently u... (more)

trio of former tunnel motors leads empty taconite pellet train U716 out of Proctor Yard bound for Fairlane. On an adjoining track, a yard job is seen working as two loaded limestone trains await ... (more)

A trio of former tunnel motors leads empty taconite pellet train U716 up the grade at Munger passing under the old DW&P, now the CN Rainey Sub.

A Canadian National taconite pellet train is seen dumping loads on 1918-built Dock 6. This historic ore dock is located in Saint Louis Bay on Lake Superior. The train originated at the Fairlane pl... (more)

DMIR 408 and BLE 903 move taconite bearing rock from the mine down to the plant on a nice winter afternoon.