A rare move of a BNSF ore train down CN's Proctor Hill. A washout on BNSF coupled with the need for ore at U.S. Steel mills in Alabama and Illinois resulted in this unusual move. CN operated the t... (more)

An empty limestone train from Minntac arrives at Proctor while a Roadswitch crew prepares to take a train of ore to Duluth.

The Missabe Road's former EJ&E (C&O) switcher moves SD-M 305 off the turntable. This switcher was used to move dead units around the diesel facility and was sold to Hallett Dock in Duluth after th... (more)

Heavy snow and high winds limit the day's rail fanning, but DMIR 215, working the E Lead at Proctor was still bearing the elements

Arriving just a the snow starts falling in earnest, I catch a land barge at Midway.

Back when the CN first converted Proctor Yard to handle large amounts of manifest traffic as well as taconite, a nice pair of GP9RMs along with a slug were used for a little over a year. The rear ... (more)

Back when the CN let the SD38-2's out on the road, fresh #212 leads taconite loads headed for the Duluth Docks. Not quite the same as Missabe maroon, but looks good fresh. DM&IR #211-212, 215 are ... (more)

This scene does not lead one to believe that were are just off to the side of the famous Proctor Yard, known for the copious amounts of iron ore that have passed through it over 100+ years. This s... (more)

Multi-functional duct tape works great to hold a numberboard in place as exhibited by 400 as it leads a loaded ore train by a Herzog slot train stored at Proctor for the winter.

DMIR 403 and CN 6013 rest on a track at the diesel house after being towed to Proctor after being involved in a derailment of a loaded ore train at Fairbanks earlier in the week. Both suffered gea... (more)

You quickly find out who can work in these conditions. On an absolutely brutally freezing day, the Proctor Roadswitch is hard at work switching out bad order ore cars.

A Proctor snowplow waits for a Roadswitch job to clear before continuing on its sanding rounds.

DMIR 403, here at MP 6.6 in Proctor, begins it trip down Proctor Hill to be loaded with Limestone to be brought to the Minntac taconite plant in Mountain Iron, MN.

As late afternoon sun ducks under storm clouds a Roadswitch job handles a cut of low side regular ore cars. If one were to visit this yard today he would likely find freight cars outnumbering ore ... (more)

It was nice to see a matched pair of former DMIR tunnel motors constitutively numbered pulling loads of taconite pellets into the yard at Proctor. While not rare by any means, finding a matched p... (more)