Typical spring in northern Minnesota - not a pleasant day to be working the yard at Proctor with thick wet snow flakes and strong winds.
CN has its own "heritage" fleet if you consider all its merger road paint schemes still represented in every day action. Here DM&IR 215 works the north end of Proctor yard.
Climbing Proctor Hill with limestone loads.
On a perfect spring afternoon, the DM&IR 215 and DM&IR 212 work switching duties in the yard at Proctor. Not long ago they were running ore trains up and down the Missabe Subdivision pulling those... (more)
Leaving Proctor with empties for Fairlane at perhaps the nicest part of the day.
After a lengthy and annoying arguement with the trainmaster about what constitutes a Initial Terminal Air Brake Test and what a carman's job is, this limestone finally departs for Minntac with the... (more)
With 10 rebuilt SD40-3's set to arrive any week now, the fate of these tunnel motors is uncertain. Having been rebuilt a few years ago I assume they will continue to be Iron Range mainstays, but i... (more)
Two Operation Lifesaver Death stars and a CN painted IC 40-3 have just brought a cut of empties up from the docks and makes a set over in Proctor yard.
A rolling meet north of Proctor as an empty U-779 (Minntac) with BNSF ore cars and DP unit shoving meets an arriving loaded U-717 (Unitac) ore train behind B&LE 903.
Matching trio of IC 6252, 6251 and 6250 at the "new" photo location in Proctor. Thanks to a new road and overpass being built in Proctor, this is sure to be a new favorite photo location.
The Proctor-Pokegama transfer builds up it's outbound train at the west end of Proctor yard with a BCOL Dash 8 second out.
CN SD40-3's leans into the curve as they lead ore loads toward the docks in Duluth Minnesota.
Last original Missabe unit remaining on the former DM&IR property nowadays, albeit in drag.
Who's railroad is this anyway?
I feel so lucky to be able to watch pairs of SD38-2's, the last true Missabe units, still working together in 2011, albeit in different paint.
