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.

On a dark and foggy morning, one of the first tasks of the day for MD&W 22 is pulling two boxcars out of the shop and returning them to service.

Shoving the containers over the border and into Canada.

With fog and frost in the morning air, CN 3233, the salute to veterans unit, comes across the US/Canada border with southbound freight in tow passing thru the myriad of security features and by th... (more)

MD&W SW-10 switching boxcars around at the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) paper mill in International Falls on a fog and frost filled morning mere feet from the Canadian border.

Nothing is coming indicated by the red signals at Iron Jct.

Above average temperatures and little snowfall have made for some fog filled nights as evident by the beams from the signals at Noimi Jct. on the CN Minntac Sub. A CN mixed freight is northbound ... (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)

As darkness and snow continues to fall upon the landscape, the crew is back onboard after giving the roll-by to a northbound empty and CN 2039 is back underway for Two Harbors with 145 carloads of... (more)

A trio of BLE motors pull out of UTAC for the trip south down the Missabe sub to Proctor.

About 15,000 tons of taconite pellets spaced out in 138 ore cars pulled by three SD40-3s cruise down the CN Missabe Sub near Saginaw as they roll towards Proctor yard.

Limestone loads pass a loaded ore train that's waiting to be dumped at CN's Dock 6 before attacking Proctor Hill.

Just a couple of SD40-3s, a SD40-2W and another SD40-3 barking up Proctor Hill with limestone loads in tow rounding the curve at Spirit Mountain.

Leaving Proctor yard behind and heading down to CN's dock 6 to unload ballpark 15,000 tons of taconite pellets.

After coming down from United Taconite with 138 cars of taconite pellets to Proctor, a yard crew has now brought the train down to the CN ore dock 6 and begins to unload.