Pre sunrise departure after dumping taconite bearing rock at the plant. These two CN 2111 and 2112 were used, stored, brought back to service and have now been retired by CN in the last two years... (more)
CN 2111 comes off the CN Rainy Sub at control point T-Bird and enters the loop at United Taconite's coarse crusher for loading.
Heading back to the mine to reload on a nice fall morning. Both of these units are now headed for an unknown fate after having been removed from the CN ore pool and likely retired.
An empty Thunderbird mine shuttle is seen heading back to the mine at Iron Junction. The shuttles operate on a four-hour cycle, bringing raw ore from the mine at Thunderbird in Virginia to the Uni... (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)
CN C40-8 2111 leads a loaded T-Bird south on the Missabe Sub at North Fairlane.
CN C40-8 2111 leads a T-Bird through Iron Junction.
CN C40-8 2111 departs Fairlane with an empty "T-Bird".
CN C40-8 2111 pulls a loaded crude ore train into the north wye at Fairlane.
A loaded "T-Bird" pulls into UTAC.
Clean CN C40-8s 2111 and 2107 head through Iron Junction with a loaded T-Bird.
CN C40-8 2111 leads loaded T-Bird U73182 03 into UTAC.
T-Bird U73084 03 passes loaded pellet train U71781 03 at Fairlane. Both trains will depart north and south respectively within the next 10 minutes.
Taconite rock rolls south while a manifest rolls north on the double track portion of the CN Missabe sub.
