Afternoon Proctor Roadswitch dumps ore cars on Dock 6 while the Presque Isle unloads limestone at its home port of Duluth.

With the brake shoes smoking, the Extra Road Switch heads down Proctor Hill at dusk.

Locomotive is now owned by the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. In the past few weeks the maroon paint job has been buffed to a shine and the underframe given a fresh coat of black. All work h... (more)

The only iron ore pellet train leaving the Iron Range today waits for the crude ore train to leave so they can head to Proctor.

The only iron ore pellet train leaving the Iron Range today eases up to speed behind the last maroon tunnel motor of the former Missabe fleet.

The only iron ore pellet train leaving the Iron Range today crosses over the Whiteface River at Kelsey, MN with 140 loads bound for Proctor, MN.

The only iron ore train leaving the Iron Range today from the only one of the six taconite plants producing pellets today a pair of repainted former Missabe tunnel motors pull the 140 cars of stil... (more)

DM&IR 410 leads the way through a blinding snowstorm with limestone loads bound for U.S. Steel's Minntac plant.

A T-Bird train runs down the Missabe Sub. towards United Taconite's Fairlane plant. The operation continues the same today but the Missabe units are no more. Missabe 212 has been repainted into C... (more)

The last Missabe Maroon painted tunnel motor works the Keenan Switch. With all the mines being shut down temporarily, this was the only CN Missabe job on the range today.

A classic Missabe shot of a maroon pair of DM&IR engines working on a T-Bird train on a cold northern Minnesota winter morning. The DM&IR 212 has since been repainted into CN colors and the other ... (more)

A classic Missabe shot of a maroon pair of DM&IR engines working on a T-Bird train on a cold northern Minnesota winter morning. Both of these units have since been retired by CN.

A classic Missabe shot of a steaming pellet train in a snowstorm in northern Minnesota.

212 gathers up some loads for a trip up to the dock.

The Proctor Road Switch finishes up spotting cars loaded with iron ore pellets on the right side on the dock and is going to take the two cuts of empties on the left back to Proctor as a BNSF coal... (more)