Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Cruising back to Proctor yard with three EMDs and Missabe ore cars loaded to the brim with taconite pellets.

The Rochester & Southern's RS-1 departs from Brooks Ave Yard in Rochester behind a quartet of EMD's with SD40-3 3346 leading the charge as the train rolls through Genesee Junction, New York and cr... (more)

A classic EMD trio and Missabe ore cars carrying taconite pellets south to Proctor yard.

As DMIR 400 rattles over the Missabe era steel bridge over the still frozen Whiteface River, it's hard to tell this is the end of February with NE Minnesota's above average temps and below average... (more)

After waiting for a northbound container train to pass, DMIR 400 now has signals to head south out of the yard at United Taconite and begins the trip back to Proctor yard down the CN Missabe sub.

Just beating out the long shadows towards the end of the afternoon, an all EMD power set leads an empty limestone train down from the Minntac taconite plant and heads for Proctor.

CN EMD SD40-3 6264 leads limestone loads north at Munger.

U717 comes around the S curve at Culver, MN with DMIR 406 in the lead.

With an SD40 and two SD50's leading the way, a coal extra on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh rolls through the connection in Machias, New York and passes the out of service PRR position light signals. Th... (more)

The local has finished its work in Greenville, Il and is headed back to its home base at Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL.

NS 6418 negotiating hand switches on the Illinois Transfer Sub near Brooklyn, Illinois.

CSX 4029, a "SpongBob" 40-3 with CEFX 1046 & a CP 95 series "Carrousel de la GRC" badged AC440CW crawl up to Stone Rd. pulling the regular manifest Q384 on a bright Sunday afte... (more)

CSX's Union City - Howell Yard turn rolls south through Ben Hill on the outskirts of Atlanta

BLE 903 leads a CN empty limestone train through the fog into Proctor Yard where it will end its run from MinnTac located north of Mountain Iron, MN. This service uses ore jennies to handle the li... (more)