CN 2029 leads U717 southbound at Burnett Road in Burnett, MN. Good power, steaming hot taconite, and golden sunshine made this chase a good one.

Heading back to Proctor with United Taconite pellets steaming away while crossing over the Cloquet River.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets.

BLE 903 makes its way south into Burnett, as the taconite steams away on this chilly winter evening.

With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)

IC 6251 leads a taconite train South on the CN Missabe Sub.

IC 1015 rolls South on the Missabe Sub near Burnett.

A 50-car limestone train is heading to the Minorca Mine near Virginia. The train works north on the Missabe Sub out of Proctor with 3 older EMDs. The train passes over the Cloquet River Bridge nea... (more)

With 35mins left of sunlight, IC 6251 takes a quartet of SD40 products out of Burnett with limestone loads.

Rolling down the CN Missabe Sub rounding the bend crossing over the Cloquet River bound for Proctor yard with hot pellets from United Taconite.

DMIR 408 leads two other tunnel motors and an empty taconite pellet train over the Cloquet River Bridge and back to the Iron Range to be reloaded.

DMIR 404 leads ore loads South.

Hot pellets from the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite plant roll across the big steel bridge over Cloquet river passing below a giant white pine as they keep moving on towards the yard at Proctor,... (more)

Three EMD veterans lead a loaded ore train over the Cloquet River.