It's a winter wonderland out there. Empty limestone heads back to Proctor with a nice-looking orange leader and with fresh snow all around.

A colorful southbound leader glides along an otherwise mostly white landscape as this empty limestone heads back to Proctor yard on a ridiculously cold day.

Bringing the limestone empties back to Proctor after a fun-filled afternoon dumping them at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

A cold and early morning departure from Minntac with an empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN.

Coming off the CN Missabe sub and onto the CN Minntac sub at Wolf pulling 54 carloads of limestone for the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

A nice quartet leading an empty limestone train back to Proctor on a sunny afternoon.

One of the first snowfalls of the season starts to cover the landscape as this empty limestone train coming from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant starts back down the CN Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.

A quad set of all EMD with IC (2), DMIR and CN representing. Empty limestone train heads back towards Proctor, MN after delivering 58 loads to U.S. Steel's Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, MN.

With the return of the cold weather, CN has resumed using the Difco side dump cars for limestone service to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Here a mixed bag of power comes off the Minntac Sub and d... (more)

CN 2119 takes limestone towards Duluth.

IC 6260 leads some empty ore cars, used to deliver limestone to U.S. Steel Minntac in the summer months, back towards Proctor yard that's still a few hours away. The entire scene is effected by t... (more)

UP 5341 heading back to Proctor, MN after delivering limestone to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. The two UP units were horsepower payback and have since been returned.

After spending the better part of daylight dumping limestone at U.S. Steel Minntac it's now time to head back south to Proctor yard.

A humming and a rumbling down the Missabe sub back to Proctor, MN with limestone empties.

A trio of -8's lead a mostly empty limestone train back to Proctor, MN on a cold and very windy day.