A pair of local freights enter Proctor yard after a fresh snow. L513 (Proctor Transfer) is on the left while L-568 is on the right.

A switch job behind a pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s works the E Lead while an empty ore train for Minntac West prepares to depart.

A train of iron ore pellets from Minntac enters Proctor yard as a switch job shuffles cars on a nearby track.

Trio of interesting cousins roar up the 2%+ grade with 120 ore jennies in tow.

Quad set of '40s slowly work their way out of Proctor Yard as steaming pellets arrive to the left and two former Missabe SD38-2's switch the manifest yard to the right.

Once a great steam locomotive hauling iron ore to the docks, is now a display piece in a park.

Ore loads are dragged into Proctor Yard and then to the dock in Duluth. CN 5338 has been equipped with a second air line for the Missabe's special straight air system (note the air hose up high).... (more)

Steam rises from an ore train stopped on the scale track at Proctor on a crisp below zero morning. Many of these cars are over 60 years old.

BCOL 4604 guides L513 into Proctor Yard.

Steam from an arriving ore train drifts over a road set on a nearby track.

Snow blower truck clears a switch. He will be at it again Sunday when the area is expected to get over a half a foot of new snow.

The "blue hour" gives way as the sun eases above the tree line and clears the clouds over Lake Superior. A Proctor Roadswitch sets out a bad order mini-quad while the yard power works a cut of "bo... (more)

Steaming ore cars coated with frost from their morning below zero trip from the mine arrive at Proctor.

The 0600 PRS beings its drop down Proctor Hill in the first rays of sun of the last day of 2012.

As snow falls the Proctor Switch with a pair of former Missabe units moves cars into the yard while an empty ore train prepares to depart. Cleaning switches is the "Air Forced 1" truck. Of interes... (more)