BLE 903 leads ore empties North through Biwabik.
The engineer of BLE 904 puts the throttle in the 8th notch and his EMD veterans billow clouds of spent diesel fuel in an effort to accelerate 57 blast furnace trim loads towards Two Harbors.
One rail, two sails. DMIR 404 dumps Minntac pellets on Dock 6, high above the Walter J. McCarthy which was loading nearly 60,000 tons of ore destined for Gary, IN while the CN owned Great Lakes Fl... (more)
The leaves are gone but the EMD's aren't -- for now. 13,000 horsepower sourced from three SD40-types and a solo C40-8 slug up Proctor Hill and around Bachelor's Curve with a load of Minntac limest... (more)
PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)
The infamous BLE trio of 906, 904, and 909 takes a set of empty limestone down Proctor Hill.
DMIR 408 leads a loaded limestone train passing through Sax along Highway 7 during the heart of golden hour.
DMIR 408 leads a set of loaded limestone at milepost 26 in Burnett on the Missabe Sub.
Prcotor switch taking some limestone empties down Prcotor Hill at Spirit Mountain.
A trio of BLE Tunnel Motors heading north with limestone bound for Minorca.
A trio of BLE Tunnel Motors take some limestone empties over the Cloquet River at Burnett.
The proctor switch with a trio of former DMIR tunnel motors unloading pellets on top of the Duluth ore dock.
Operating in the vicinity of Lake Superior as opposed to Lake Erie, these three B&LE units spent the weekend running ore trains on the DM&IR.
Two Bessemer tunnel motors bring a loaded T-bird through Iron Junction in the snow.
Management said they want to send the EMD's on the Iron Range out with a bang and I'd say they're doing a great job. It had been over five years since the last time a trio of orange T's were toget... (more)
