A trio of EMDs pull a train of loaded limestone train up Proctor Hill.

IC 6260 prepares to depart Proctor for the iron range with an empty ore train while a still steaming loaded pellet train has recently arrived.

DM&IR 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotive. In the early 1940s, numerous US railroads went looking for ultra-heavy freight locomotives to assist in the war effort. As a result severa... (more)

Two ore trains, both led by repainted DMIR tunnel motors, pass at Proctor.

On a clear summer night, Yellowstone #225 sits in Proctor, greeting visitors taking Highway 2 into Proctor. These beasts were once the main power for ore trains along the line. Now EMDs and GEs ha... (more)

The dynamics are howlin' as DMIR 405, CN 5318 and IC 6252 lead ore loads down Spirit Mountain.

CN SD40u 6021 sits in the yard at Proctor.

B&LE tunnel motors in both CN and B&LE paint sit outside the shop at Proctor.

Two loaded taconite trains are at the lead into Proctor Yard on a sunny March morning. IC 6252 in death star paint is in the lead of one as it pulls into the yard while the other waits.

Missabe SD38-2s nos. 210 and 212 sandwich Tunnel Motor no. 410 at Proctor, MN prior to heading out on a morning run to the Duluth ore docks and waterfront. The Tunnel Motor was a second hand purch... (more)

With an Illinois Central SD40-3 on the point, three EMD's haul a heavy taconite train into CN's Proctor Yard on their way to the docks in Duluth.

A thunderstorm has just cleared and early evening light bathes Proctor yard as a loaded limestone train for Minntac departs north. There are still plenty of older EMD units assigned to Proctor.