This loaded ore train is working down the 3 mile steep grade into Two Harbors. With the air set and lite use of dynamics, this train will ease down the grade at 20 mph into Two Harbors yard. This ... (more)

This loaded ore train is climbing the short grade before starting down the steep grade into Two Harbors. This signal at MP 3.5 has special use to tell the crews what Two Harbors hill looks like an... (more)

A loaded iron ore train out of Minntac Mine near Mountain Iron, MN, is pulling hard upgrade into Wales, MP 17.6. In a few miles this train will head into the siding at Highland to weigh the train ... (more)

The 1530 Limestone waits in the hole at North Coons as a loaded tac train heads south to Proctor. The limestone crew is giving the tac loads a roll-by on this sunny, but chilly Minnesota winter d... (more)

After being blocked by a train from a "foreign" railroad, (really the CN's DWP) a limestone train heads north with three trains working Proctor on this busy day. In the immediate background, the E... (more)

402 leads Mintac limestone empties back into the Proctor in frigid -15 F January weather.

402 leads Mintac limestone empties back into the Proctor Yard.

402 leads Mintac limestone empties back into the Proctor Yard.

Limestone empties head back to Proctor.

As light snow falls and empty limestone train passes by a stopped A-438 at Adolph, just north of Proctor. Duluth/Proctor received two feet of snow between Christmas Eve and this morning.

DMIR 402 leads a full load of steaming taconite pellets from United Taconite enroute to Proctor. Temp is 25 below zero.

A repainted Missabe tunnel motor and IC SD40-3 arrive in Proctor with ore loads from United Taconite.

Two former Missabe tunnel motors lead an ore train off the former Duluth Missabe & Northern alignment and onto the former Duluth & Iron Range Rail Road, which they will use into Two Harbors. The t... (more)

These two units might wear the same paint, but their heritage is quite different. DMIR 402 is a former Southern Pacific tunnel motor while IC 6258 is ex-Burlington Northern.