An U-Tac load is heading back to Proctor with 140 loads of pellets out of Fairlane bound for the Duluth Docks. The train is southbound on the CN Missabe Sub.
An empty ore train bound for Fairland works north on the CN Missabe Sub as they pass under the CN Rainy Sub at Munger in the late evening light. The CN uses the Missabe Sub mainly for northbounds ... (more)
It took some chutzpah to go with a white locomotive paint scheme, or was it Murphy's law. Hey, it was interesting. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.
A Northbound manifest (Oak Island, NJ to Selkirk, NY) blasts by the Haverstraw station.
A trio of Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD's lead a grain train through the frozen swamps outside of McKenzie, North Dakota on a frigid March morning. The train is coming off of the DMVW's Na... (more)
Early on a frosty January morning, this southbound loaded ore train heads over the scale lead into Proctor Yard.
It's shaping up to be a nice day across NE Minnesota as IC 6254, CN 6024 and IC 6252 come around from the Minntac plant with loads of taconite pellets for Proctor yard and ultimately the CN dock d... (more)
The roar of EMD prime movers and the echo of the horn fills the valley as a Buffalo & Pittsburgh coal extra cruises north past the old BR&P AD Tower at Ashford, New York after a late season snow f... (more)
Before departing back to the mine to reload, DMIR 400 has to wait for a pellet loader out of Proctor to clear first.
Hauling a train of dry ice or hot taconite pellets. Doesn't matter, can't see it anyway.
With Minntac partially visible in the distance, IC 6252 makes its way down the Minntac sub with a destination back to the yard at Proctor, MN.
As our oldest daughter Kira films the action with her phone, the engineer of CSX road local L425-26 gives a friendly wave as the train cruises over the Great Miami River Bridge in Hamilton.
Heading back to Proctor traveling down the CN Missabe Sub.
Just a few miles into its run to Silver Bay, the mid day train has their 3 motors in Run 8 with a load of crude ore.
A chilly -10F morning finds the light of a lantern briefly illuminating the nose of 409 as a waning crescent moon rises in the sky above.
