Northern Pacific RS3 858 leads another RS3 and two RS11s at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth July 1965. Tom Smart Photo from my Collection.

A trio of 2nd generation EMD's sits on the ore docks of Duluth, MN

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)

Two tunnel motor, still in their B&LE paint, lead a pair of CN painted SD40 types and limestone loads up Proctor Hill in low late winter afternoon light, bound for Minnesota's Iron Range.

A colorful lashup of CN subsidiary roads in the IC, DMIR, and BLE, await their crew and their trip back up Proctor Hill with ore empties on CN's Dock 6.

A CN crew spots ore cars at ore dock number 6 while a BNSF switch job rolls past underneath. Two vessels from Canadian company Lower Lakes Towing are loading at the dock (Manitoulin and Michipicot... (more)

By 1984 DWP had finally been relieved of its first diesel fleet, a group of RS-11s bought new to replace steam in the 1950s. The CN/GTW subsidiary was re-equpped with a small fleet of GP38-2s and ... (more)

MILW SD40-2 no. 200 is parked at the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific yard on Duluth's west end on a rainy October afternoon in 1982. The unit is in run through service with CN and CN subsidiary is tryi... (more)

A trio of former Oakway SD60s lug Difco side dumps, loaded with limestone bound for the taconite processing plants on Minnesota's Iron Range, up Proctor Hill from the Hallett dock on Duluth's harb... (more)

A trio of tunnel motors lift empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill from CN's Dock 6 in Duluth in a heavy lake effect snow storm.

A pair of Bessemer tunnel motors sandwich a widecab SD40-2 as they shove limestone loads through the hole track, under CN's Duluth ore docks, before they make the climb up Proctor Hill.

Now stopped under abandoned DMIR dock 5, CP 2224 pulled a long string of grain empties from an elevator on Rices Point for the BNSF to pick up all while under CN dock 6 in Duluth, MN.

Burlington Northern F9A 794 leading a train through Rices Point Yard as a DWP transfer waits in the clear at Duluth October 1976. This train likely originated at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth and... (more)

Tourist line Lake Superior & Mississippi loads passengers in Duluth's west end for an excursion down Northern Pacific's original trackage. The old GE is listed as a 50 tonner, once owned by Flambe... (more)