Just a couple of SD40-3s barking up Proctor Hill with limestone loads in tow. Keen eyes will spot Duluth's Aerial Lift Bridge and really keen eyes will see an ore train unloading on top of CN's do... (more)

Now arriving Proctor yard.

D&RGW 5371, 5377, and 5390 lead the Dirt Train back off the Sunnyside Branch.

USSC 6324 on its first day running the DeSoto Turn since being put into service.

Having picked up 15 additional cane loads from the Shawnee loadout, Cane 3 is now headed straight for the US Sugar mill. If someone told me a year ago that I would be seeing a tunnel motor in cane... (more)

KRR power rolls past going westbound about to cross the CPKC Shreveport Sub.

Daily Mulberry, FL-New Orleans, LA mixed with the traditional runthru power from SP. This tradition continued into the UP years, but eventually the train routing was changed and replaced with ano... (more)

In an interesting turn of events, USSC 6324 would wound up being the power for Cane 3 after being taken off the Fort Pierce Turn. The tunnel motor would return leading LHF, picking up 10 loaded ca... (more)

After leading the Fort Pierce Turn out of the yard, SD40T-2 USSC 6324 would be set off for an unknown reason on a rarely used spur, just before Evercane Road. FPT-10 then continued with just USSC ... (more)

A CN crew spots ore cars for unloading at Dock 6 as the veteran laker s/s Wilfred Sykes loads for Indiana Harbor as the end of the Lake Superior shipping season nears.

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN.

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.

U716 loads at UTAC's Fairlane processing plant with BLE 909-904-906 for power. Once loaded, the 137 car train will head back south to Proctor as U717. There are five B&LE tunnel motors assigned to... (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)