A pair of B&LE tunnel motors depart Fairlane with a T-bird.

Heading through the landscape with some of last remaining snows still visible trackside. Plenty of it the shaded wooded areas but the open spaces susceptible to the warm sun are becoming snow fre... (more)

A nice-looking pair of BLE motors and a long string of 114 ore cars leave the yard track at the United Taconite plant behind and head back to the mine bathed in that warm afternoon light.

On a snowy Minnesota afternoon, two BLE SD40T-3’s lead the T-Bird south across Highway 7 in Mountain Iron as they head to Fairlane.

Heavy snow slams the Iron Range on a spring afternoon in Northern Minnesota as a rare pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3’s lead a T-Bird south past the Route 37 bridge as they close in on the ... (more)

Departing the United Taconite plant, crossing Highway 7 and taking the right turn onto the Missabe sub to head north back to the mine to reload.

BLE 909 and sister BLE 906 continue to be paired up (thanks, CN!!!) to move rock from United Taconite's Thunderbird mine coarse crusher down to their plant about 10 miles away where it's made into... (more)

BLE 909 holds at CP Collingwood with ore empties as the Mesebi Miner departs town.

BLE 909 leads ore loads South through Zim.

Limestone loads head north from Proctor with several other trains in the yard waiting for their turn down the hill to Duluth. At this same moment, another load of limestone was coming up the hill... (more)

B&LE 909 departs Fairlane with a Duluth-bound ore train.

After running around their train at CP Colingwood, BLE SD40T-3 909, CN SD40U 6017, and IC SD40-3 6252 prepare to shove their train onto Dock 6 to unload ore. Off to the top right in the distance i... (more)

As a short daylight winter's day nears it's end, BLE 909 hauls steaming pellets south from U.S. Steel Minntac towards Proctor, MN.

A lot of people are usually out here with cameras in hand waiting......to photograph birds. The Sax-Zim Bog is a world renowned birding location in the winter, as well as the spring and summer. I... (more)

Heading up to Minntac from Proctor to load taconite pellets on a foggy, frost filled afternoon.