Wet and heavy snow blowing sideways never makes for a good day to be doing ground work (or trying to keep your lens dry). Here a Proctor Roadswitch arrives with a train of ore empties from Duluth ... (more)
CN uses a number of large vacuum trucks to suck spilled taconite pellets from between the rails on its former DM&IR ore lines in Minnesota. Here one of the trucks cleans the mainline through Proct... (more)
A trio of BNSF units lift an empty 133-car ore train up CN's Proctor Hill. This was a rare occurrence to have a BNSF train on famed Proctor Hill. The train was headed for U.S. Steel's Minntac plan... (more)