SOO 700 and SOO caboose # 1 parked in the storage track at the museum in Duluth. They were used on Friday on a chartered excursion train.

The North Shore Scenic's Budd Car decked out in holiday lighting makes it's final run for 2009 picking up the last group of happy children for their return trip to Santa's Courtyard.

Picking up derailed grain hoppers on the SOO

This old Santa Fe RPO now owned by the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in Duluth, awaits restoration on the Radford siding in West Duluth.

EMCO 7212 on it's way to the coarse crusher with another load of taconite

UP's Presidential unit and the Mopac unit are among the units at Itasca Yard on this somewhat sunny Sunday.

Ore empties split the switch at 2nd street giving residents of Proctor a front row seat to the derailment cleanup

An Erie Mining F9 heads up a mix of power on the train to the dock.

Lots of activity in the Twin Ports, CN is bringing 40 loads onto the ore dock while they are loading a ship with taconite. Over in Superior on the other side of the bay there is a BNSF coal train ... (more)

A loaded grain train makes it's way West through the tunnels just East of Belton.

SOO 2500 rests at the bumper in the late afternoon sun

DM&IR bay window caboose rests outside the shop building, it's getting some minor work done to it, mostly electrical.

A pair of locomotives from the railroad museum works at gathering the first train of stored cars for a return to service.

Kicking up snow and ballast with a jet powered switch cleaner

This special high wide train is on it's way to Alberta, but will only make it to Superior for the night. Here the PHNX 102 brings up the rear. The caboose is manned for the trip.