BLE 909 leads the Proctor MRF under the Rainy Sub at Munger, MN.

BLE 909 leads the Proctor MRF through Saginaw, MN.

Entering the CN Minntac Sub off the CN Missabe Sub at Noimi Jct., BLE 909 leads their train towards the U.S. Steel Minntac plant to load on a cold and dreary Minnesota winter's day.

Departing for Proctor, MN

Bessemer & Lake Erie 909 leads DM&IR 405 and B&LE 900 up Proctor Hill with empty blast furnace trim cars (crushed raw taconite rock). The bright cars can also double as ballast haulers.

Coming up from Two Harbors, MN, a BLE trio is on the Minntac sub and will be arriving at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant shortly to begin loading 145 cars off the west loadout silo before returning b... (more)

A trio of Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad units (909, 904, 903) bring up 145 ore cars from Two Harbors to be loaded at U.S. Steel Minntac with approximately 15,000 tons of taconite pellets.

A quad pack of EMD's sound nice as they race by.

DMIR 403 shoves back to it's train of empty taconite cars to tie on and head north for loading at Cliffs Natural Resources owned United Taconite, BLE 900 and DMIR 211 pull cars and shove cars in ... (more)

It's daybreak on a very cold morning and the fresh baked taconite pellets interact with that wind whipped cold air as the train continues south to Two Harbors.

It's Christmas morning at 0800 and the air temperature is -19 degrees with a wind that is whipping about 20 mph out of the north making it feel like -40 degrees out here yet the men and women that... (more)

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