A fitting black and orange color for Halloween as B&LE 906 leads a sister and a CN SD40-2W upgrade with ore empties from the dock in Duluth.
A & Dub's drive-in wasn't open yet so I couldn't order my favorite Hunter Burger, but their orange seating fit right in with the trio of Bessemer 900s working on the approach to CN's Duluth ore do... (more)
A nice (and unusual) gathering of three matched Bessemer units spot an ore train on the approach to Dock 6 in Duluth. The snowplow at the dealership will likely be busy before too long here in the... (more)
A solid set of three Bessemer units (909, 906, 903) pull empty ore cars off Dock 6 while the vessels Joe Block and Walter J. McCarthy Jr pass. The grass covered trestle on the right served the shu... (more)
A nice gathering of EMD power as three SD60s wait to lift limestone loads to Proctor while a Bessemer sandwich runs around its train on the ore dock.
Just under Highway 169, BLE 909 hugs the curve leading 138 loads of fresh made marbles from U.S. Steel, Minntac bound for Proctor.
A trio of Bessemer tunnel motors (906, 900, 909) roll an empty limestone train south across the Cloquet River. Winter is slowly releasing its grip on Northeastern Minnesota but not quite enough to... (more)
An empty ore train makes short work of a plow ridge created by the Lake County truck in the distance, which was coming back and sanding the opposite side of the road.
A Proctor snowplow waits for a Roadswitch job to clear before continuing on its sanding rounds.
The very last Missabe painted tunnel motor leads an empty limestone train off Proctor Hill and into Duluth as another Proctor Road Switch waits to head up hill with taconite empties, on a below ze... (more)
CN has installed new "Vader" style hooded signals along the Minntac Sub and now they are operational, having replaced the old school searchlight signals within the past week or so. Here is BLE 90... (more)
Orange over orange as a clean B&LE Tunnel Motor soars over a not-so-clean BNSF GE on a grain train.
Three Orange beauties head back south with loads for North Bessemer.
Ore loads work upgrade at Wales.
