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.

The orange of the B&LE stands out in the northern Minnesota landscape as it leads a train of taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac to Proctor along the Missabe Subdivision.

It's a cold early morning made evident by the minus 10 degrees reading from the nearby detector and the taconite pellets are steaming an hour into the journey towards Two Harbors.

The smell of brake dust and diesel exhaust with the squeal of metal on metal filling the air as the 15:00 Proctor Road Switch comes down the 2.2% grade from Proctor with taconite loads for the doc... (more)

The Keenan Switch Job is bound for the Minorca mine with limestone loads on a great summer morning.

Looking more like a scene from Greenville, PA than Proctor, three of the five B&LE 900s assigned to the DM&IR rest at the diesel house.

Three former SP tunnel motors (two B&LE and one DM&IR) roll past a train of loads they have just brought down to Duluth for dumping at the ore dock.

BLE 902, 901 and 866 pull 48 loads of Minnesota ore into North Bessemer yard where it will be interchanged with the Union railroad, it will then be taken down to the furnace's at the USS Edgar Tho... (more)

After crossing the massive bridge over the Allegheny river the engineer on 902 drops sand and notches up as the train continues south to North Bessemer where they will interchange with the Union R... (more)

The sun burns through a snow shower as power for the MRF drifts back to the mainline at Wales after having delivered three covered hoppers of bentonite to Northshore Mining.

The sun burns through a snow shower as power for the MRF drifts back to the Wales Branch after having delivered three covered hoppers of bentonite to Northshore Mining.

After bringing the loads down the hill the crew runs around to begin preparations to shove them out onto the dock for unloading. This trio of B&LE units has caused quite the stir this spring in n... (more)

After bringing loads down Proctor Hill, the trio of B&LE units have run around the train and the crew begins preparations to shove the loads out onto the dock. The engineer walks to the head end ... (more)

There is still a little life in this view of a once-busy location in Duluth. This view is looking east along what was at one time NP's busy double-track "Shortline" through West Duluth where it cr... (more)

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