My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

The engineer of BLE 904 puts the throttle in the 8th notch and his EMD veterans billow clouds of spent diesel fuel in an effort to accelerate 57 blast furnace trim loads towards Two Harbors.

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

A trio of BLE SD40-3's (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train over the bridge at Kelsey, MN.

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.

Byron Helpers return north to Fond Du Lac after shoving a train up the hill.

Two Bessemer tunnel motors bring a loaded T-bird through Iron Junction in the snow.

Management said they want to send the EMD's on the Iron Range out with a bang and I'd say they're doing a great job. It had been over five years since the last time a trio of orange T's were toget... (more)

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)