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.

With a train of steaming pellets from the Fairlane Taconite Plant in tow, DMIR 406 leads CN U71781-04 as it slowly makes its way into the yard at Proctor, Minnesota to tie the train down where it ... (more)

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. The out ... (more)

The last sliver of light hits the nose of BLE 906 as they cross the intersection of Highways 101 and 7 heading back home to Proctor yard.

Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.

A pair of DMIR Tunnel Motors and an IC SD40-3 slowly ease forward as they pull the last of their train of ore cars through the loader at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. Once the ... (more)

Light snow falls as BLE 903 gets underway back to Proctor yard after loading and now leaving United Taconite with ore.

Ridiculous cold morning just as the sun begins to rise, hot taconite pellets create quite a steam cloud as the move south.

With lights out of the yard and onto the Missabe sub for the trip back to Proctor, three BLE motors start pulling.

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

The first pellets of the new year are loaded into 137 ore cars and ready to go back to Proctor yard behind three BLE tunnels.

U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (more)

The sun has now dipped below the horizon and thus brings to the end the first day of 2024 as a trio of BLE motors glide along on the southbound trip back to Proctor with 137 cars of taconite pelle... (more)

BLE 909 leads an empty limestone train south at Munger, MN where the former Missabe mainline from Iron Jct. to Proctor, MN goes under the former DW&P main from Virginia, MN to Nopeming Jct., MN. C... (more)

With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)