Just before midnight the evening beltpack yard job spots grain loads into Viterra A

A little fog in the air yet as BLE 906 is passing over the spring melt and rain swollen St. Louis River on the way to the United Taconite plant.

Pulling off the Missabe sub and onto the Fairlane leg heading onto the Cleveland-Cliffs United Taconite property with 114 loads of rock pulled by a BLE duo.

Bessemer & Lake Erie 905 and 862 roll through Girard, Pennsylvania as they head toward the EMSCO Plant to perform some switching and interchange with NS. The train is rolling past the historic Gir... (more)

About a half hour out from Proctor leading L568 (Ranier to Proctor) with a mixed freight, BLE 906 looks good in the low winter light on a clear afternoon.

Just underway down the CN Missabe sub for a quiet and uneventful trip to the yard at Proctor.

As the early morning sun rises, we are pacing alongside former DMIR Tunnel Motor 408 as it cruises northbound on the Missabe Sub towards Zim, Minnesota with a train of ore empties in tow for loadi... (more)

BLE 906 departs out of Fairlane with a T-bird.

Pulling off the CN Missabe sub and heading into the United taconite property with rock from the mine with a good-looking pair of DMIR locomotives and 114 DMIR ore cars.

B&LE 906 leads a T bird North through Iron Junction. The BLE 909 had a traction motor fire earlier in the day so the duo was split up as a result. Still cool seeing two tunnel motors elephant styl... (more)

A pair of B&LE tunnel motors depart Fairlane with a T-bird.

Missabe Remains. DMIR 409 and GTW 5934 lead a rail train on the Iron Range Subdivision through Biwabik, as the old Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Biwabik Roundhouse still stands strong in the backgro... (more)

On a snowy Minnesota afternoon, two BLE SD40T-3’s lead the T-Bird south across Highway 7 in Mountain Iron as they head to Fairlane.

Heavy snow slams the Iron Range on a spring afternoon in Northern Minnesota as a rare pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3’s lead a T-Bird south past the Route 37 bridge as they close in on the ... (more)

Departing the United Taconite plant, crossing Highway 7 and taking the right turn onto the Missabe sub to head north back to the mine to reload.