A group of teenagers staying at the hotel seem to be impressed with the sound of the Proctor Road Switch pulling hard coming around the curve at Spirit Mountain on a perfect spring day.

Our hopes were answered when CN assembled a solid set of B&LE 900s (909, 906, 900) and put them on a Proctor Roadswitch job today. Here the trio head towards Proctor with BNSF interchange traffic.... (more)

Our hopes were answered when CN assembled a solid set of B&LE 900s and put them on a Proctor Raodswitch job today. Here the trio run light towards Missabe Junction to pick up BNSF interchange traf... (more)

IC 6251 leads a loaded taconite train down Proctor hill.

Taconite cars as far as the eye can see. The PRS pushes cars onto dock 6.

The Proctor Road Switch grinds up the grade with 36 loads of limestone for the Mintac taconite plant on Minnesota's Iron Range.

Limestone headed for the Minorca Taconite plant.

CN 5298, CN 5537, CN 5304 bring another cut of limestone up Proctor Hill.

Proctor Roadswitch makes its last move of the day as it drags Minorca limestone up Proctor Hill. The last remaining tunnel motor in DM&IR colors trails the IC 6263.

At 07:57 the previous nights crew (21:30) on the Proctor Road Switch rumbles into Duluth with the last active DMIR SD38-2 on the point! What a way to start the day.

Tis the season for broken rail and pull-aparts.

With light snow falling the afternoon Proctor Road Switch pauses before heading up the hill after dumping taconite in the ore dock in West Duluth

The Proctor Road Switch finishes spotting 140 car loads of iron pellets up on Dock 6 as the James R. Barker finishes loading pellets and will shortly set sail for the steel mill.

With the begining ice forming in the bay, a otherwise gloomy dreary early winter day is on tap for workers on CN Dock 6 as the Proctor Road Switch prepares to shove 140 cars out on the dock and th... (more)

212 gathers up some loads for a trip up to the dock.