After coming down from United Taconite with 138 cars of taconite pellets to Proctor, a yard crew has now brought the train down to the CN ore dock 6 and begins to unload.
A single engine and four cars wait to depart BNSF and head back to their own yard on Rices Point in Duluth. Trains are small in the grand view of things.
Coming and going. Pushing a sand train up the CN Missabe sub is a very new CN 3348 while a very old DMIR 404 waits in the siding with the crew giving the roll-by. Ironically or coincidently, thes... (more)
BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)