The engineer leans back in the seat as he creeps along while loading iron ore bearing rock at the United Taconite coarse crusher at the Thunderbird mine.
Back in late October 2023 these two C40-8s were part of a deadline at Proctor along with other dash 8s that were being moved off site. Late February 2024 found them back at Proctor and being readi... (more)
A pair of CN Dash 8's lead empty raw ore shuttle U730 as it heads north approaching Iron Junction, Minnesota where it will head to the Thunderbird Mine for another load. The train has just passed ... (more)
Cutting through the fog on a winter morning.
Today the snow is falling, the wind is blowing and it's 22 degrees which is a far cry from 48 hours ago when it was sunny and 72. A T-Bird rumbles and rattles the old steel bridge spanning the sw... (more)
Quite the change from forty-eight hours ago when the snow was almost gone and the temperature was 72 degrees with sun. Fast forward and it's 22 degrees with snow falling and the wind is howling as... (more)
A week ago it was 10 degrees and snowing, today it was 70 degrees and sunny. The snowmelt was fast this spring across NE Minnesota and took less than a week so the rivers are high and moving fast... (more)
Bring taconite rock from the mine down towards the plant.
The evening sun shines on the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota as a pair of Dash 8's on U73085-04 pull a string a raw ore empties out of the loop track after unloading. Once they get t... (more)
A nice afternoon along the Missabe.
Snow falls and flies around as this train travels back to the mine to reload.
CN 2119 + CN 2112 have a T Bird crude ore train behind them heading from the mine to the processing plant
CN C40-8's 2119 + 2112 shuttle another load of crude rock towards the pellet plant at Forbes.
CN 2119 takes limestone towards Duluth.
After spending the better part of daylight dumping limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac it's now time to head back south to Proctor yard.
