DM&IR 403 leads the 145 empties northbound through Fayal on the way to the Minorca mine for loading.

DM&IR 409 leads empties north from Proctor, MN in heavy snows for load at U.S. Steel Minntac's east load-out pocket.

DMIR 185, an SD18, along with DMIR 143, a phase 3 SD9, and DMIR 169, a phase 4 SD9, bask in the morning sunlight along the shore of Lake Superior at Endion Yard, a small merchandise yard east of d... (more)

A train of iron ore pellets from Minntac enters Proctor yard as a switch job shuffles cars on a nearby track.

Quad set of '40s slowly work their way out of Proctor Yard as steaming pellets arrive to the left and two former Missabe SD38-2's switch the manifest yard to the right.

Once a great steam locomotive hauling iron ore to the docks, is now a display piece in a park.

Steam rises from an ore train stopped on the scale track at Proctor on a crisp below zero morning. Many of these cars are over 60 years old.

A DMIR Hill job was climbing Proctor Hill passing above I-35 with a mixed train of limestone and general freight with a couple of spanking clean units leading that were used on a passenger special... (more)

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD-M No. 310 is on the point of a ore train at Wolf, Minnesota, on the night of September 19, 1991.

Steaming ore cars coated with frost from their morning below zero trip from the mine arrive at Proctor.

After a long trip north and fighting air issues along the way during the -25 degree morning, DM&IR 404 is loaded out and heading back south to Proctor with 140 loads in the -5 degree afternoon.

It's a -25 degree morning with a wind chill reading of -40 and the crew is hoping they don't have any problems with the train as they roll thru Biwabik heading for Two Harbors with loads of steami... (more)

On a -25 degree morning DM&IR 407, 402 and 409 cut thru the fog and frost as they head for Two Harbors with loads of steaming taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac.

As snow falls the Proctor Switch with a pair of former Missabe units moves cars into the yard while an empty ore train prepares to depart. Cleaning switches is the "Air Forced 1" truck. Of interes... (more)

The late afternoon sun makes it look warmer than it was. The air temp was -13F when I shot this, the wind-chill far south of that. The B&LE trio are on train U-710 with 133 empties for Minntac. T... (more)