Three Tunnelmotors cross the Allegheny River Bridge after taking a train to the URR in North Bessemer.

BLE 909 takes Minntac loads back to Two Harbors.

A trio of CN tunnel motors head through Hoyt Lakes with a loaded pellet train.

Loaded pellets head through Biwabik during a brief spring blizzard.

After delivering a short train to the harbor, four units head back lite.

A heads up from a friend led us to North Bessemer to watch a southbound ore train arrive to interchange with the Union Railroad - an unexpected surprise was the northbound Union crew arriving with... (more)

Southbound ore loads roll through the sweeping curve at Lyndora on the southwest side of Butler. This was once a much busier place on the Bessemer, but times have changed and the yard here is now ... (more)

U717 Utac Ore loads heads under the DWP at Munger.

BLE 904 hits the switch at South Alborn with ore loads for Proctor.

U717 is just out of Utac as it steams along Highway 7. Power is BLE 904, DM&IR 403, and CN 6017.

U717 is just out of Utac as it steams along Highway 7 at the slight bend in the Missabe Subdivision at Sax, MN. Power is BLE 904, DM&IR 403, and CN 6017.

A pair of B&LE tunnel motors hustle empties towards the P&C docks on a cold winter morning.

BLE 906 and BLE 904 lead 141 ore empties all out through Saginaw.

Dashing through the snow with a 142 loads..... B&LE 904 heads south out of United Taconite with 142 loads of taconite pellets for Proctor, MN on a snowy Sunday afternoon

After a hasty recrew at Kremis, the U70261 is back on the move and approaching the town of Fredonia. Motive power for the train consists of three matching tunnel motors of Southern Pacific herita... (more)