Typical fall day across northern Minnesota except for the trio of BLE's adding a little color.

Lancaster and Chester Railroad SD40T-3 leads LC 12 on the wye having excahnged cars with LC 16 in Janary 2018. The locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific as SP 8257 in 1984.

Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.

Even the birds head for cover as a rapidly approaching storm out of the east bears down on the Lakehead with the DMIR/EJE beltpack set going about its business spotting empties for inspection in t... (more)

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 leads CN L512 East into Kirk Yard.

Empty ore train U716 rounds the bend in the morning sun as it comes off the Missabe Sub and down the connection to United Taconite's Fairlane Plant in Forbes, Minnesota for loading. A pair of form... (more)

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 leads the Lakefront local East through East Chicago.

Repainted BLE tunnel motor 902 departs the Port of Chicago with CN L512.

The crew of Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has run aruond their train on the Circle S Feed Miill spur after working the Owens-Hamilton facility to the right of this frame. They are returning to do... (more)

DMIR 403 leads the CN triple set and a drag of grain empties back to Port Arthur Yard from the elevators in Current River; the eastern end of the Thunder Bay Terminal.

As the sun sets on the Missabe and paints the sky brilliant shades of pink and purple, Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor 906 leads the U716 with ore empties as it takes the diverging route at Sout... (more)

With a train of steaming pellets from the Fairlane Taconite Plant in tow, DMIR 406 leads CN U71781-04 as it slowly makes its way into the yard at Proctor, Minnesota and rolls past a trio of IC SD4... (more)

DMIR SD40T-3 409 is in great shape, seen here leading an empty ore train north at Alborn.

With stone loads in tow, CN U714 rolls through the swampland outside of Mountain Iron, Minnesota behind a pair of SD40T-3's bracketing an SD40-3 and a C40-8. The train is now on the Minntac Sub as... (more)

With some incredible timing, a CN manifest freight M356 cruises south on the Rainy Sub as loaded ore train U717 rolls east towards Proctor on the Missabe Sub, creating a perfect over-under on the ... (more)