One-hundred and thirty-six loads of taconite from Minnesota’s Minntac iron ore operation heads south (eastward) at Mountain Iron toward Two Harbors and a date with a Laker at the ore dock there ... (more)

An all-rail taconite train departing the U.S. Steel Minntac plant located near Mountain Iron, MN the taconite capital of the world.

CN 3137 departs Minntac with a Southbound all rail taconite train.

A cold crisp and refreshing....photo depicting a train descending down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant loaded with fresh taconite pellets that are still steaming away.

CN C40-8 2004 leads a ore train South past a parked Dash 8 in Mountain Iron.

A cold refreshing image back when it was below zero and code blue on New Year's Day compared to the 90 degrees with a dew point at 72 degrees on this last day of spring in NE Minnesota.

A nice but cold spring day finds CN 3000 coming down from the U.S Steel Minntac plant with 100 taconite loads heading for the CN Keenan yard. Once there this crew will tie onto another 88 cars and... (more)

A nice spring snow falls on BLE 909 as they head off the Minntac sub shortly and will then run down the Missabe sub back to Proctor with these empty limestone cars.

A nice spring evening deserves a flashback to the winter of 2021 and a cold February afternoon with a temperature of minus 20 and cold NW wind blowing. KSC 5000 leads the still steaming taconite ... (more)

GTW GP38-2 5847 leads the Keenan switch South through Mountain Iron.

A duo of GTW geeps lead the Keenan Switch South out of Minntac.

CN 3000 brings 100 hoppers of taconite pellets down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant on the almost last day of winter. The crew will yard this first cut at CN Keenan yard, tie onto another 88-ca... (more)

March 12th and it's minus 15 degrees on this fine late winter morning as CN 5337 leads three other EMD products and 58 empty DMIR difco sidedumps down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant about to cr... (more)

Gliding along with steaming taconite pellets in tow.

Steaming pellets rounding the bend as they come down from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant on a bitter cold afternoon never gets old.