When DMIR 403 leads a train the foam usually comes out of the woodwork to document the occasion. Here is DMIR 403, the last maroon Missabe tunnel motor on the vast CN roster, leading a T-Bird cru... (more)

T-Birds have always been relatively easy to catch with them making a 10 mile run about every two hours. Running back and forth mine to plant, plant to mine, day and night, night and day. Here are ... (more)

CN 5338 (SD40-2), CN 5318 (SD40-2W), CN 5349 (SD40-2W) and CN 5244 (SD40-2W) lead 145 empty cars north from Two Harbors for loading at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, MN and will th... (more)

After loading the train, the crew sits back and enjoys the last rays of sun while they wait for the work block on the Missabe Sub to expire.

Recrewing at Shelton Junction, after loading at United Taconite are a pair of standard cab C40-8s.

A T-Bird crew change is taking place at Shelton Jct. / Largo after loading at United Taconite. On the right side is the Laurentian Aggregates rock crushing operation with it's GP9 visible and the ... (more)

CN 2112 is all loaded out and a new crew has arrived to keep the ore moving from United Taconite north Fairlane crusher to their processing plant 10 miles away. This mine, some of which is in the... (more)

The journey continues (in French and English). The anniversary of privatization logo applied to a handful of locomotives in 2010 is still in decent shape on 2107 as it toils away on ore trains in ... (more)

A quiet Easter Sunday afternoon while a T-Bird crew loads rock from the coarse crusher at United Taconite's North Thunderbird load out pocket, just like every other day of the week and year.

A old GP9 waits quietly for the call of duty as a 240 ton United Taconite production haul truck rolls by behind it. This GP9 is used by Laurentian Aggregates to move hoppers around the pit for lo... (more)

It's a cold and gloomy day but CN really did up a nice looking CN business train. Filled with CN brass, the train rolls off the DWP Jct. connecting track and heads down the CN Missabe Sub after l... (more)

There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad P-1 Class Box car sits being used as a storage shed on United Taconite property as it's rots it's way b... (more)

There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad work car sits a storage shed for spare parts on United Taconite property. Built in 1903 as D&IR 5180 i... (more)

There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad Class P-2 boxcar sits on United Taconite property as 3153 cubic feet of storage capacity or a storage s... (more)

There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad bunk car resides in the United Taconite bone yard, used as a storage shed for spare parts and pieces. B... (more)