As the sun sets on the Missabe and paints the sky brilliant shades of pink and purple, Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor 906 leads the U716 with ore empties as it takes the diverging route at Sout... (more)

A few minutes into their trip and a few miles south of Minorca Jct., BLE 906 heads back to Proctor, MN on a typical fall afternoon.

The BLE trio heads past the former Saginaw station on its way to Proctor

CN 718 arrives at Proctor Yard behind the BLE triple set

A trio of pumpkins dodge clouds as they head back to Proctor.

Peak Fall color and a matched trio of BLE tunnel motors cannot be beat.

The infamous BLE trio of 906, 904, and 909 takes a set of empty limestone down Proctor Hill.

Prcotor switch taking some limestone empties down Prcotor Hill at Spirit Mountain.

A trio of BLE Tunnel Motors heading north with limestone bound for Minorca.

A trio of BLE Tunnel Motors take some limestone empties over the Cloquet River at Burnett.

Operating in the vicinity of Lake Superior as opposed to Lake Erie, these three B&LE units spent the weekend running ore trains on the DM&IR.

A trio of BLE orange hustle 48 loads of limestone north along the CN Missabe sub heading for the Minorca mine near Virginia, MN.

An empty T-Bird shuttle train waits outside the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota with a Bessemer tunnel motor on the point. Once the recrew arrives, the train will depart for the T-Bir... (more)

There was no shortage of photos as the BLE trio shoved limestone loads under the Duluth docks.

BLE 906, 904 and 909 make for a very nice tunnel motor trio as they take headroom under CN Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. The loaded Minorca bound limestone train would soon make way up Proctor Hill and in... (more)