BLE 909 adds to the colors of northern Minnesota as it heads south meeting a northbound stack train on the CN Missabe Sub.

A bright leader on a late winter afternoon.

Coming down the mountain with pellets from Minntac bound for Proctor. First arriving in Minnesota in 2005, BLE 909 still is plying the rails for CN in her orange paint. Such a classic girl.

With the overnight frost still evident on this cool morning, BLE 909 leads 140 cars of taconite pellets through what's left of the fall color season in northern Minnesota.

Coming off the west loadout at U.S. Steel Minntac and down the Minntac Sub then onto the CN Missabe Sub, BLE slows up a bit before taking the left turn at Iron Jct. onto the CN Iron Range Sub to T... (more)

A quartet of rebuilt EMD SD45T-2's haul a loaded Canadian National taconite train across the Partridge River near the small town of Allen,MN on its way to Two Harbors. Bessemer & Lake Erie #909 le... (more)

One of the Bessemer units is in charge of the local freight heading south of Virginia on the Iron Range Sub on this code blue day.

The Two Harbors loads speed by with steaming hot taconite pellets through Rollins with a fallen flag leader shining on point.

BLE 909 leads a quartet of SD40s with Minntac loads into Biwabik where they will hold the main line while awaiting the arrival of the empties headed west from Two Harbors.

BLE 909 leads a quartet of SD40s with hot taconite loads in tow through Hoyt Lakes and bound for Two Harbors.

Due to its inaccessibility, this hill is rarely shot but it is incredibly impressive. One of the few remaining orange BLE units holds back 145 fresh loads of taconite as they drop from the Prindle... (more)

Only one of few B&LE locomotives remaining in the B&LE orange paint leads a southbound Taconite train with fresh steaming pellets, bound for the docks at Two Harbors.

Happy Fourth of July.

The sun has long since set but the show must go on. A Proctor Road Switch crew works on dumping their train with the help of the dock crew while the Mesabi Miner takes on a load of iron ore pellet... (more)

While CN is currently removing Bessemer units from their home rails out east, Bessemer 909 continues to operate on former DM&IR rails.