A blustery cold winter afternoon on the first day of the new year and the Minntac taconite plant is churning out hot pellets for the steel mills. The IC 6252 is in charge of this string of 142 ca... (more)
Coming down from U.S. Steel Minntac with 141 loads of steaming taconite pellets, IC 6252 prepares for the shove and will yard the train in Keenan before eventually going down to Proctor with them.
IC 6252 North races Proctor-Fairlane empties through Zim a few miles south of the mine, as a thunderstorm rages to the south. A faint rainbow can be seen to the left of the frame.