Snow continues to fall as blue hour switches to darkness while BLE 906 gets lights to pull iron ore loads from United Taconite and begin the return trip back to Proctor yard.
BCOL 4652 in the blue scheme leads interchange train L572 from Norfolk Southern's Oakwood yard in Melvindale, MI through the arches and over the Penford diamond as they head back to CN's Flat Rock... (more)
Kind of a bummer that the T-birds had CN-AC motors on them last summer. The T-birds work between the mine at Largo and the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane. We were chasing a trio of C40s on a Mi... (more)
Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)