Screaming Light and Steamy Taconite
Here’s my first shot from a short Iron Range trip this Summer. Seeing standard cab dash eights lead road trains was a great change of pace from monotonous gevos.
The morning started with getting up an hour prior to sunrise at the hotel in Proctor. While driving up to Iron Junction, I noticed the sun beginning to light up some clouds on the horizon. This scared me a little bit, but I remembered my railfan colleagues telling me to not expect completely sunny days up. Surely enough, every day was partly cloudy. ATCS showed a train lined of Minorca Junction, so I quickly made a game plan to catch it at first light. Thankfully, I caught a decent sucker hole and got full sun. Steamy taconite pellets were a nice plus.
I’m very glad I made a last second trip up there as the dash eights no longer roam the former DMIR.
CN 2040
U Something
CN Two Harbors Subdivision
McKinley, MN
7/18/24
Screaming Light and Steamy Taconite
Here’s my first shot from a short Iron Range trip this Summer. Seeing standard cab dash eights lead road trains was a great change of pace from monotonous gevos.
The morning started with getting up an hour prior to sunrise at the hotel in Proctor. While driving up to Iron Junction, I noticed the sun beginning to light up some clouds on the horizon. This scared me a little bit, but I remembered my railfan colleagues telling me to not expect completely sunny days up. Surely enough, every day was partly cloudy. ATCS showed a train lined of Minorca Junction, so I quickly made a game plan to catch it at first light. Thankfully, I caught a decent sucker hole and got full sun. Steamy taconite pellets were a nice plus.
I’m very glad I made a last second trip up there as the dash eights no longer roam the former DMIR.
CN 2040
U Something
CN Two Harbors Subdivision
McKinley, MN
7/18/24