BLE 909 is south of Kelsey with a loaded ore train from Minntac.

U718 Minorca Limestone empty pass over the south switch at Kelsey behind a pair of EMDs.

Chicago-Prince Rupert train Q197 pokes through the morning for on CN's Missabe Sub.

CN 716 heads towards Duluth with empty limestone cars

Nice trio of CN SD40-2W's hustle an empty Minorca or Minntac limestone train back to Proctor. Normally only Minorca receives limestone by ore jennies, but lately it appears Minntac has been as wel... (more)

An IC-BLE-IC lash handles a loaded tac train across the Whiteface River.

Another train of taconite pellets leaves the Iron Range of northern Minnesota bound for Proctor then Duluth and then a boat for a steel mill somewhere.

An impressive collection of power on the head-end of the L594 as it rolls over the Whiteface river at Kelsey, MN on it's way to Proctor from the Iron Range. Leading the train was CN GP40-2W 9544 f... (more)

L568 rolls south on New Years Day.

Just south of Kelsey this trio of Bessemer tunnel motors roars by the distant signal headed for Proctor.

Although I suspect the "two thumbs up" displayed by the engineer on B&LE 906 was intended for his fellow CN employee, I felt the sign was just as appropriate for capturing the noses of two U.S. St... (more)

Long gone from the CN active roster and shown in better days, this SD-M of the former DM&IR/ Missabe Road days was earning it's keep on this snowy New Years Day retrieiving a bad order set-out an... (more)

There are five BLE's working the former Missabe, every once in a while they'll get put together making for a cool consist to chase. Here the 903 and 909 lead a repainted IC SD40-2 with another lo... (more)

Perfect Day. Perfect Light. Perfect Leader. DM&IR 403 leads 140 loads of taconite pellets south down the Missabe Subdivision towards Proctor on a unseasonably warm January day in northern Minneso... (more)

Sailing along at track spped, CN 6021 leads the fresh taconite pellets over the frozen Whiteface River as they continue southward for Proctor, MN.