Nice IC SD70 departs Proctor for Ranier while an empty ore train (U-711) waits to follow it north on the Missabe Subdivision.
Train A-439 rolls past mechinical department employees who have just forcefully removed a bad order ore car from an adjecent track.
EJ&E 665 and 659 shove hard on the rear of a long A-439 as it grinds up Steelton Hill on the former DM&IR in far western Duluth. As viewed from Skyline Parkway.