#215 smokes it up as she shows her age. Missabe SD38-2's are unwanted by a large number of engineers nowadays, on the road at least, due to their 2,000 horses as opposed to the IC SD40-3's 3,000. ... (more)
Some days I love the CN. The last maroon SD38-2 (ironically a B&LE unit) which should have been numbered #214, but at the last minute General Foreman Martin Fair decided that it did not look like ... (more)
The CN and I have a love/hate relationship. Today was one of the better days...
IC 6252, 6250, and 6254 thunder up Spirit Mountain with a train of empties from dock 6 in tow for Proctor. Local rumors say that this may be the last summer for the SD40's on the Missabe Range, bu... (more)
DM&IR 407 and IC 2465 sit at the sand tower at Proctor yard in the early morning. Later in the day this power would be MU'd together and sent west, fresh loads of taconite pellets steam in the bac... (more)
Increasingly rarer power drags empties up Proctor Hill.
Shover power heads to Steelton Hill while the Proctor Road Switch switches out a cut of cars and the GP9's drill the E-Lead.
There are only around 5 black IC SD40-3's left, with the majority being on the Missabe. As such, catching two together is a fairly rare thing, with GP9's to boot!
There are only around 5 black IC SD40-3's left, with the majority being on the Missabe. As such, catching two together is a fairly rare thing!
With a consist typical of this era, limestone departs Proctor for Minntac.
In a fairly rare move, the E-Lead Switch is using a single SD40-3, as she lives out her last summer.
Certainly not the pride of the fleet, these two former LMS GEs have spent most of 2011 assigned to the former DM&IR. Lucky us.
While heavy weather moves to the south of the Twin Ports, soft early evening sun illuminates Proctor Yard.
Heading to the ore dock.
Back in the Missabe days, the T-Bird's were the worst train you could get during the summer, due to the lack of air conditioning and time spent just sitting, or moving under 3 mph. I have to imagi... (more)
