A single engine and four cars wait to depart BNSF and head back to their own yard on Rices Point in Duluth. Trains are small in the grand view of things.

A trio of CP rebuilds roll a transfer past the retired ore/cement carrier J.B. Ford that is in the process of being scrapped.

Strong thunderstorms rolled through Duluth and in the process knocked over a few double stack cars at the port terminal.

I liked the symmetry of track panels stacked at BNSF's yard in Duluth.

Soo Line SW9s 2118 and 2117 with a transfer from the BN passing under Garfield Ave in Duluth MN June 1979. The 2118 has yet to be painted into the "Duluth" scheme, that won't happen unti... (more)

Soo Line SW9s 2119 and 2118 picking up a transfer from the BN at Rices Point Yard in Duluth July 1980. These SW9s were built in September 1953 for the original Wisconsin Central. The 2119 was pain... (more)

Burlington Northern S4 919 switching in Duluth MN April 1971. BN 919 was built as NP 719 in May 1953 and retired in May 1973. There are a couple hallmarks of the NP on display with this unit inclu... (more)

After cutting of the cars brought over from the yard in Superior, WI this UP engineer practices a little space management with the snowbank at the very end of the CP Rices Point yard with the cond... (more)

A thunderstorm has just cleared and early evening light bathes Proctor yard as a loaded limestone train for Minntac departs north. There are still plenty of older EMD units assigned to Proctor.

BNSF remote control job 116 shoves two hoppers into the Rices Point yard while a nice matched pair of ex-Santa Fe GP50s (3183/3181) prepare to depart with a transfer.

A quiet evening at Duluth's Rices Point. A GP 38-2 idles in CP's yard while the BBC Mississippi unloads it's cargo of windmill towers.

After dropping their cut of cars off, UP 679 pulls up the very end of the yard so the conductor can throw the switch and they can head back home to Superior, WI.

A UP transfer from their yard in Superior, WI arrives at the snow filled CP yard on Rices Point in Duluth, MN.

Canadian Pacific job HS12 switches the Duluth port terminal while the Clyde S VanEnkevort and Edwin H Gott await the start of the 2018 shipping season.

D&NE 28 is reunited with its tender for the first time in months as the restoration of this former DM&IR 2-8-0 continues, with official steam-up runs occurring in June. A crew from the Lake Super... (more)