Crossing Elbow Creek a bit south of Iron Jct., a load of crude ore heads towards United Taconite for processing.

The Two Harbors turn heads over a small trestle in Palmers as they head north to Two Harbors on a haze’ and humid morning.

Some of the awesome variety of beautifully preserved/restored equipment the NSSR boasts can be seen strung out on the passing track at the Two Harbors depot.

An empty lime train returns to Duluth MN.

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite ore train marches through Wales, Minnesota, on the railroad’s Iron Junction to Two Harbors route on September 30, 1989.

An eastbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite ore train is about to rattle over the crossing with the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway at Ramshaw near Spruce, Minnesota, on September 21, 19... (more)

One rail, two sails. DMIR 404 dumps Minntac pellets on Dock 6, high above the Walter J. McCarthy which was loading nearly 60,000 tons of ore destined for Gary, IN while the CN owned Great Lakes Fl... (more)

The leaves are gone but the EMD's aren't -- for now. 13,000 horsepower sourced from three SD40-types and a solo C40-8 slug up Proctor Hill and around Bachelor's Curve with a load of Minntac limest... (more)

A trio of DMIR SD40-3's (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train through the "S" curve at Culver, MN.

PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)

The Iron Range has always been a safe haven for CN's veteran EMD fleet (much like Florida's Bone Valley once was for CSX)....but....if I had taken a bet on which of these two veterans would leave ... (more)

Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)

Tunnel motors race ore empties north up the Missabe Sub on a brisk Fall morning.

A trio of DMIR SD40-3 (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train past the derelict DMIR depot in Saginaw, MN.

DMIR 193 leads the Two Harbors Fall Colors train back towards Duluth on a gloomy fall day.