I never thought I'd ever have the chance to talk about catching maroon DMIR power on the point in the Remarks section here, especially when I moved away from the northern tier, but here it is, in ... (more)

A CN slug set works the top end of Proctor Yard switching out manifest traffic while the ore yard is fairly quiet on this sunny Saturday evening.

Four SD60Fs lead an IC and DM&IR SD40-3 into Proctor as the sun shines on the north end of the yard while fog off Lake Superior obscures the south end.

A group of teenagers staying at the hotel seem to be impressed with the sound of the Proctor Road Switch pulling hard coming around the curve at Spirit Mountain on a perfect spring day.

A road power set shoves three sets of mini quads that are bad order towards the shops in a busy Proctor Yard. There are five jobs actively moving around the yard doing various things. From the ... (more)

A yard job using road power swithes out bad order mini-quads while three other movements can be seen in the distance.

A matched trio of B&LE units eases a loaded ore train into Proctor for movement down the hill to Dock 6 in Duluth.

B&LE units roaming the DM&IR has been going on for a long time. This 1996 shot of the afternoon limestone getting ready to depart Proctor has Ex B&LE 861 leading Ex EJ&E 222 and DM&IR 315.

Most people find this hotel to be an eyesore, but who knows when it will get torn down, or what it will look like in 50 years? Its too bad 2 mines are shutdown so no ore traffic moving the last fe... (more)

A matched set of clean B&LE 900s move 157 empty ore cars into Proctor yard. These cars had been in all-rail service this past winter.

1500 PRS dragging commerical traffic back to Proctor.

This brings an amazing spring break to a close, in a perfect way! You see, I traveled all the way out to Pennsylvania and.... 1500 PRS heading to the BNSF for commercial traffic.

Just when you thought CN couldn't degrade the Missabe any further...

Of course they had the wrong leader! Spirit Mountain is the signature Missabe shot, and maybe because of that I have not spent much time here. It is the perfect place, however, to show off some ni... (more)

U-717 prepares to depart Proctor Yard as the ground crew completes it's inspection. To the right, U-715, led by maroon DM&IR 215, returns to the yard after unloading as much semi-frozen limestone ... (more)