A pair of BLE motors lead a Miscellaneous Road Freight (MRF) from Two Harbors, MN with a stop coming shortly at the CN Keenan yard. Todays freight includes a dead SD40-2W, some empty bentonite ho... (more)

A northbound empty ore train from Two Harbors, MN makes it's way past the signals at S. Biwabik as the trek back to the mine for loading continues.

B&LE 905 South rests at Conneaut waiting for the conductor, while NS 206 passes overhead

Very strong winds with gusts well over 50 mph churn up waves on Lake Superior, with some reaching a height of 20 feet. The white caps are clearly visible in this image at Two Harbors as B&LE 906 r... (more)

Freshly washed B&LE 903 leads DM&IR 403 and sister 900 up Proctor Hill with Lake Superior in the distance.

The 2 remaining Bessemer units left on regular freight service bring a Southbound loaded pipe train south at the MP 12.9 Defect Detector.

The 2 remaining Bessemer units left on regular freight service bring a southbound loaded pipe train south past the ancient B&LE searchlight signals at SX North.

B&LE 900, painted in CN colors, leads two other units toward the Lakehead Storage Facility to pick up a cut of ore cars filled with limestone, which is being delivered by the Laker Joseph L. Block... (more)

Only one of few B&LE locomotives remaining in the B&LE orange paint leads a southbound Taconite train with fresh steaming pellets, bound for the docks at Two Harbors.

On this day six years ago, it was a beautiful day to be in PA. CN U702 is passing through the yard limits with a quartet of Bessemer & Lake Erie units. For a few years in a row I made the trek t... (more)

The Two Harbors switch job with fairly clean Bessemer 906 shoves empty cars past the large ore stockpile.

The weather is clearing slightly from the fog experienced on the northbound trip as BLE 900 is now southbound with fresh made taconite pellets from U.S. Steel, Minntac bound for Two Harbors, MN.

A typical northern Minnesota November day. BLE 900 charges north on the Minntac Sub to load taconite pellets at North America's largest taconite mine, U.S. Steel Minntac.

Happy Halloween! BLE 903 departs United Taconite with empty ore cars on a perfect sunny and warm afternoon.