A sucker hole bursts through the clouds for a split second to illuminate the nose of freshly repainted BLE 900 as it and 3 other EMD's pull 145 empties north on the CN Iron Range sub destined for ... (more)
Black, white and CN all over as a northbound empty taconite train takes the siding at S. Biwabik to meet a counterpart southbound loaded taconite train that will arrive shortly. CN 6024 (SD40-2u)... (more)
A U-790 loads on the east at U.S. Steel Minntac. There is the huge stockpile on the right that Minntac has had to put on the ground and that is what has been feeding the E-Rail trains to Escanaba... (more)
It's always busy when the largest taconite mine in the U.S. is running at capacity. At this facility, iron-bearing rock called taconite is mined and processed into iron ore pellets. Annual product... (more)
Illinois Central 6264 leads it's train back from Two Harbors under perfect fall conditions on Minnesota's Iron Range. The train will load taconite pellets at U.S. Steel Minntac before returning t... (more)