Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3 #909 leads a loaded taconite train at Wolf Junction bound for Two Harbors

Returning to Proctor yard with iron ore pellets behind a trio of BLE motors.

A quartet of EMD tunnel motors lead a loaded CN taconite train bound for Two Harbors

Proctor yard is full during the blue hour of a late fall evening. Pellet trains, limestone trains and a trio of BLE oh my.

Low winter light bathes this iron ore train as they head for home at Proctor yard.

Fresh out of Minntac with freshly made iron ore pellets bound for Proctor tard.

A rare sight to find DMIR 215 out of captivity. Usually, it never leaves Proctor yard anymore much less do it go north. IIRC these two were being used to pull cars from storage in the former LTV m... (more)

A late afternoon departure with iron ore pellets bound for Proctor yard.

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. The out ... (more)

Coming up from Proctor to load at United Taconite before returning back to Proctor and all the while not seeing much but the fog covered landscape.

With lights out of the yard and onto the Missabe sub for the trip back to Proctor, three BLE motors start pulling.

BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN.

The first pellets of the new year are loaded into 137 ore cars and ready to go back to Proctor yard behind three BLE tunnels.

U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (more)

The sun has now dipped below the horizon and thus brings to the end the first day of 2024 as a trio of BLE motors glide along on the southbound trip back to Proctor with 137 cars of taconite pelle... (more)