Maroon and gold 403 was quite busy this weekend, heading up several trains.

A unique small 3-axle industrial switcher is surrounded by larger locomotives at CN's Proctor locomotive facility. The switcher was en route to a grain elevator in Thunder Bay, Canada. FWDX 0002 i... (more)

DMIR 212 leads an empty taconite train into Proctor after climbing Proctor Hill from the Duluth docks. No. 212 could use some touch up on its paint job. By this time older SD9s were getting pretty... (more)

A busy afternoon at Proctor yard near Duluth. In the upper left in front of the yard office is the power off a pellet load that just arrived and is heading to the house for servicing. In the upper... (more)

Where does the time go. I was going to say something old, something new, but what is new is now old, and pretty much gone. A pair of DMIR SD45-2T tunnel motors (SD40-3s) surround their ancestor, m... (more)

DMIR 212 leads a consist parked at Proctor, MN diesel shop. The 212 looks a bit worse for wear with maroon paint chipping off the unit. The 212, SD40-3 410 and SD38-2 210 will team up to handle Pr... (more)

Arriving Proctor yard with loads.

403 has been busy recently working out of Proctor. Here it leads taconite loads down to the dock.

Seasonal traffic reductions and recession conditions in fall 1982 combined to require Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range to store some of their power at Proctor, MN. Their SD9/18 fleet may appear all th... (more)

A well weathered Jordan spreader suns itself at Proctor Yard near Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range's engine facilities. Proctor is just west of Duluth on top of the hill that drops to the Lake Superio... (more)

A year after take over by Canadian National, the DMIR looks pretty much like itself. Tunnel motor 409 faces an SD38-2/tunnel motor/SD38-2 combo as the latter group prepares to depart for the Dulut... (more)

An Illinois Central EMD SD40-3 leads an ore train into the yard near Proctor, Minn.

SD9 DMIR 163, rebuilt with a chopped nose after an accident, mates up with SD18 193 outside the Proctor shops in typical winter conditions in early January 1976. SD38-2 212 is in the background.

CN trio

Nine Missabe SDs are stored at Proctor Minn. as a combination of recession and end of season mining reduce the power requirement to run the railroad. The mix includes several SD18s mixed with the ... (more)