The Kelly Lake local make some moves to pick up two cars and drop off one car from their train on a siding of a metal recycling business on the east side of town near downtown Hibbing, MN.

The Kelly Lake local passes by some shells of former businesses that once relied on rail service as they head for their yard after a day long trip up to the Minorca mine.

Low afternoon light greets the crew as they leave the yard at the plant, cross Highway 7 and to head back north to the mine to reload.

After loading at U.S. Steel Minntac, IC 6260 heads back to Proctor yard with 140 new ore cars filled with iron ore pellets.

Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local is passing through the small yard at Wilpen on the CN Keenan Sub.

After a meet with a northbound limestone here at Kelsey, it's back underway southbound for Proctor yard.

DMIR 332 works on switching some cars around along Railroad Street near the waterfront at Duluth, MN.

Taking the siding for a meet with iron ore loads.

Snow falls as DMIR 409 leads the Two Harbors yard to Keenan yard transfer.

CN 5337 spots cars for dumping on top of CN dock 6 while a boat loads iron ore pellets.

A general freight works it's past m.p. 100 doing track speed along the CN Rainy Sub passing through the small town of Cook, MN.

A KCS unit somehow found its way to the point of A439, CN's Proctor Yard, MN to Symington Yard, Winnipeg, MB and is shown here passing the signals for Keenan yard on the CN Missabe Sub.

The sun has set, and things are getting colder in the yard at United taconite as a pellet train prepares to leave and head back to Proctor and a T-Bird is almost dumped out from bringing more rock... (more)

A late afternoon departure with iron ore pellets bound for Proctor yard.

One of those nights a person just doesn't forget. Standing trackside at 0100 on a peaceful night watching the sky come alive.