A matched set of clean B&LE 900s move 28 loaded limestone side-dump cars up the 2.2% of Proctor Hill.

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)

BLE SD9 826 sits at BLE's Albion, PA engine facility waiting for it's next assignment

U-717 prepares to depart Proctor Yard as the ground crew completes it's inspection. To the right, U-715, led by maroon DM&IR 215, returns to the yard after unloading as much semi-frozen limestone ... (more)

B&LE engine facility Albion, PA

The Western Allegheny RR freight train from Kaylor had arrived and dropped its loads and was preparing to pick up its empties for the return trip when the head end and rear end power passed in the... (more)

Empties out of Proctor, MN, bound for loading at United Taconite Plant at Fairlane, MN, rolls thru lite snow as they make their way past MP 47, just north of Kelsey. The CN has recently added a co... (more)

B&LE F7A No. 728 leads the daily Western Allegheny RR freight train through an S curve just east of Buena Vista, PA on August 25, 1979.

The westbound Western Allegheny RR freight climbs around a curve west of Brady's Bend, PA on August 25, 1979, led by B&LE F7A No. 728.

B&LE 904 arrived on the Missabe last week and is seen here at Proctor with limestone loads from Duluth in the company of GT GP38-2 6221 and DM&IR SD38-2 212.

The Western Allegheny RR daily train from Kaylor to Queen Junction and return has just gone on duty at Kaylor and is working its first siding, Blue Row Tipple, just west of town. Two F7s, led by ... (more)

Recently arrived on the Missabe, B&LE 906 leads a wide carbody GE on ore empties headed to Minntac. Sister B&LE 904 is expected in Proctor shortly after being reassigned to the former Missabe and ... (more)

BL&E 909 heads south through Superior National Forest as it approaches Skibo Road.