Having been delivered earlier in the year this pair of freshly rebuilt tunnel motors lift ore empties up the southbound main out of Two Harbors. The track the train is on has a 2.9% grade as it di... (more)
A pair of repainted Missabe Tunnel Motors sandwich an IC SD40-3 on ore empties for Minntac.
A clean 403 accelerates through the crossovers at Iron Junction with Minntac loads bound for Two Habrors. IC 6264 and DMIR 411 assist on the 136-car train.
DM&IR 404 leads 136 cars of ore towards Two Harbors.
Two tunnel motor repaints lead SD-M 303 and 136 ore loads towards Two Harbors.
Loaded ore train for Two Harbors rounds the north leg of the wye at Iron Junction and enters the Iron Range Subdivision.
A loaded taconite train has just departed the Minntac plant with 116 loads for Two Harbors behind repaint 406.
Loaded ore train heads from the Minntac to Two Harbors with a hint of fall color in the scene.
A pair of 400s handle 116 taconite loads towards Two Harbors.
An empty 116-car taconite train rolls through the frozen landscape of Northeastern Minnesota.
An empty Granite City all-rail taconite train heads for loading at Minntac during a moderate snowfall.
A loaded Minntac I/D with steaming pellets rolls towards Two Harbors after northern Minnesota's first measurable snowfall of the year.
Loaded ore train rolls south for Two Harbors on the Iron Range Division.
Slowing for the scale at Highland, en route to Two Harbors.
Loaded 116-car taconite train works up the .60 percent grade at Wales.