A T-bird is busy unloading at the Fairlane Plant on the Missabe Sub. 2 trains run back and forth all day, most days, delivering raw iron ore to this plant for production into pellets. The track to... (more)
Kind of a bummer that the T-birds had CN-AC motors on them last summer. The T-birds work between the mine at Largo and the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane. We were chasing a trio of C40s on a Mi... (more)
With a Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor and a CN Anniversary Dash 8 on the point, CN U731 rounds the bend as it rolls through Iron Junction, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane Taconite Plan... (more)
A pair of GEVO's are on the point of a raw ore shuttle as it crawls forward, loading the last cars of the train through the dumper at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Once loading is co... (more)
A pair of Canadian National Dash 8's are on the point of T-Bird ore shuttle U731 as it eases through the loader at the Thunderbird Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. Heavy haul dump trucks like the one s... (more)
With a Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor and a CN Anniversary Dash 8 on the point, CN U731 rounds the bend as it comes off the main on the Missabe Sub and on to the lead into the Fairlane Taconite... (more)
A pair of CN Dash 8's round the bend as they roll through the junction in Iron Junction, Minnesota with a raw ore train in tow, shuttling between the Thunderbird Mine and Fairlane Taconite Plant.
A pair of Dash 8's lead a loaded raw ore shuttle into the evening sun as it approaches Wolf, Minnesota and heads towards the Fairlane taconite plant. In the distance behind the train, the conducto... (more)
