Heading south with taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac in B&LE hoppers with CN and KSC power bound for New Orleans for loading in a boat to take to a European steel mill. Global economics.
As a short daylight winter's day nears it's end, KCS 5000 hauls steaming pellets south from U.S. Steel Minntac towards the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans to be transloaded into larger dr... (more)
With new power and a new crew put on at Waterloo, this loaded grain train off the Osage Sub begin the trip out of Waterloo for Reserve, LA. The Cedar River brought the train down to Mona Jct on ... (more)
Exhaust all around and KCS 5000 gets rolling again after a crew change. The lead unit and DPU exhaust is visible as is the U.S. Steel Minntac plant some 15 miles behind and where this train origi... (more)