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Missabefan posted a photo:

Loads from Minntac meet empties bound for Minntac on the CN Iron Range Sub at Gilbert.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

A rebuilt SD40-3 in a SD45-2 body works with an SD40-2 at Rices Point in Duluth. A rare bird for transfer power. Credit my wingman Gus for grabbing this shot as we drove past on I-35.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

Shovers assist a northbound Q train up Steelton Hill as fall color clings to a few trees.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

All the rain we have received appears to have caused a slip-out of the new grade at control point Gary. This is near the same spot where a slip-out occurred when they were building the new alignment. CN 2131 was the power and MOW used Missabe side-dumps filled with rip-rap that was loaded at Steelton yard.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

BNSF (GN) 3429 and 3704 pull empty tank cars from Hallett Dock 6 in West Duluth. On the left is a former ATSF car owned by the LS&M tourist line.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

BNSF (GN) 3429 and 3704 pick up a handful of empty tank cars from Hallett Dock 6. Hallett and North Shore Track Services added a number of tracks here specifically for car storage business.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

As the leaves fall a 0801 PRS job lifts ore empties up Proctor Hill near the new Rails' hockey arena.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

A three-pack of shovers helps Q141 up Steelton Hill. This time of year wet leaves on the rail play havoc with northbound trains here.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

Well, maybe not the cowl, but the yellows of Steelton Hill looked good. Q141 works upgrade as a fortuitous shaft of sun breaks through the thick cloud cover.

Missabefan posted a photo:

Snow and fall leaves combine to provide color while EMD and GE mix to provide power.

Missabefan posted a photo:

Minntac pellets descend the hill from Minntac.

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Trains in the snow.

Missabefan posted a photo:

Some fall color and some color provided by BLE courtesy of CN.

Missabefan posted a photo:

After waiting for CN stack train to cross the Ramshaw diamond, BLE 903 is about to run across the diamond.

Kevin Madsen posted a photo:

DMIR 418 South crosses over to the Iron Range Division with a Minntac I/D train for Two Harbors back in February 2003. This is the only time I remember getting both SD45-2s together on a train, so I was glad the sun popped out here while spending a Saturday afternoon shooting the Missabe up on the Range.

Kevin Madsen posted a photo:

Two out of the twenty Missabe SD40-3s weren't tunnel motors. Besides the 416, DMIR 418 was the other 400-series that was rebuilt from a former Seaboard Coast Line SD45-2.

DM&IR 418 wraps south around the big curve at Biwabik with a morning Minntac load for Two Harbors on June 15, 2005. Some summer mornings the pellets steam like in winter if the relative humidity is high enough.

We're over a year after the CN takeover and they're still running the Iron Range Sub. the same way the Missabe did.. Still was two SD40-3s and 116 cars off the Range for Two Harbors on this 2005 morning.

Kevin Madsen posted a photo:

DMIR 416 South works through Saunders, WI on the beautiful fall day (what are those?) of October 16, 2005. Always was nice catching one of the two former SD45-2s in the lead on Missabe trains. Besides the lack of maroon, Saunders looks different here with the Missabe siding long removed and the mainline itself realigned.

Most Sundays, the Missabe ran a Steelton Switch from Proctor to South Itasca/Tomco and back. The main duties of this roadswitch run was to interchange with the UP at Tomco and work the tie plant at Ambridge. They also ran this train on Wednesdays and it would into the CN era as shown here. Changes would be on the way with new crew and interchange agreements, along with the switch into the tie plant being lifted. The Steelton Switch was on short time here.

After the 416 set out the taconite concentrate gons for the UP, the 207 would return north with a single empty centerbeam. I followed this job all day, not a hard decision as the Steelton Switch was a fun job to chase.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

On the back end of a powerful weather maker that swept across Lake Superior the Indiana Harbor plows through heavy waves east of Copper Harbor on its way toward Two Harbors for another load of Minnesota taconite.

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M/V Indiana Harbor arrives at Two Harbors for the shiploader well before daybreak. The footer will take a load of Minntac pellets to Conneaut after having just completed a round-trip from here to Indiana Harbor with Minorca flux pellets.

Missabe Road posted a photo:

Cason J. Callaway loading the final BFT cargo of the season at Dock 1 in Two Harbors. Next stop Zug Island (Detroit). October 13, 2018.