The first ship of the season, the James R. Barker, backs toward CN ore dock No. 6 while a crew pulls empties off the dock and a BNSF coal train unloads across the bay at Midwest Energy.

Cloquet Terminal has renumbered and applied full lettering to its recently acquired ex-UP MP15DC. The unit was out working the large Sappi paper mill today.

BNSF snow dozer 940027 clears the mainline through Cloquet.

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.

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor yard on a crisp -5F morning. The calm conditions have allowed a temperature inversion to trap steam from freshly baked taconite pellets close to the g... (more)

Change on the Range. CN is in the process of replacing its fleet of EMD units assigned to the former DM&IR with C40-8s of C&NW heritage. The first loaded train from Minntac to Two Harbors to be po... (more)

D&NE 28 (former DM&IR 332) leads a mixed train past a green pond between Duluth and Two Harbors on the North Shore Scenic Railroad. This was a Glischinski photo charter.

A special passenger extra operated by the North Shore Scenic Railroad celebrating the birthday of Minnesota railroad historian/photographer Steve Glischinski. Soo Line 2500A powered the train tha... (more)

Copper Range S-12 No. 200 rests outside at the LSRM while members of the Soo Line Historical Society (DSS&A Division) continue restoration efforts on the Baldwin that spent its working life in Mic... (more)

A nice looking BNSF unit brings up one end of the railroad's employee passenger special as it prepares for trips out of Superior later in the day.

D&NE 28 makes a test run along the North Shore Scenic Railroad prior to its first official trips later this month.

Eileen Laakso has the honor of christening D&NE steam locomotive 28 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on National Train Day. The former DM&IR 2-8-0 (No. 332) will be used to pull passenger trai... (more)

Alive! D&NE 2-8-0 Consolidation 28 (former DM&IR 332) undergoes boiler tests in early April prior to a return to service this summer for the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. A very special sight for... (more)

What a son tells his mother early on Sunday morning - "Mom, your car is stuck on the railroad track in downtown Duluth." Fortunately her insurance company paid the healthy fee to have it... (more)

A massive cloud of fugitive dust rises as an ore train dumps into the dock while the Canadian Steamship Line's vessel Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin loads. CN does have a water deluge system on the appro... (more)