A former GN snow dozer (BNSF 940022) deposits a nice collection of snow and ice chunks on Wisconsin County Highway C as it works east. BNSF's dozers have been busy clearing compacted snow and ice ... (more)

The southbound Amtrak Arrowhead rolls across the former Great Northern high bridge over the Nemadji River south of Superior, Wis. This river cut a deep valley into the topography south of Superior... (more)

A special CP dimensional train with four large electric transformers loaded at the port of Duluth heads south on BNSF's Hinckley Sub with an ultimate destination of Calmar, Alberta.

These trackmobiles aren't as exciting as an industrial locomotive but they certainly are flexible. Here one switches covered hoppers at the Graymont lime plant in Superior's North End. You can usu... (more)

A colorful trio of geeps leads a short Union Pacific transfer through Superior's North End. Things are clogged up as this job typically only works M-F.

DMIR 129 heads a freight east towards South Itasca, WI and the CNW interchange. This unit is painted in original "heritage" DMIR scheme, and was one of two steam generator equipped SD9s on the ra... (more)

This was the only time that UP's big Centennial ever visited the Twin Ports. It was powering an engineering inspection train and came up from St. Paul over BNSF and went south into Wisconsin over ... (more)

Nosed into a snow bank, this GP35 provides back-up power for a GP9 that does most of the switching here.

Although the shipping season is over on Lake Superior, grain elevators in Duluth and Superior remain active handling the loading of rail cars for movement to mills.

Compressed air is your friend in the winter, just ask this CHS crew as they use air from their former Soo Line SW9 to clear fresh snow from a switch.

Maroon and gold SW1 1378 moves loaded grain cars from Elevator M on a code blue afternoon. The shuttered lake vessel American Victory hasn't sailed since 2008 and its future is uncertain at best. ... (more)

Some very obvious size comparisons here as a diminutive GE centercab muscles a much larger covered hopper while a massive lake ship undergoes repairs during winter lay-up.

This former Illinois Central (Columbus & Greenville) SW-1 makes a rare appearance at the south end of the large CHS grain complex. Providing a nice backdrop is the idled ore carrier Edward L. Ryer... (more)

After congestion problems forced this Galesburg-Grand Forks train into Superior for over 24 hours, it brought with it a unit very far from any NS line. Its hard shooting in this particular spot, b... (more)

Scenes like this were all too common in the late 1980s and 1990s as railroads replaced their caboose fleets with end-of-train devices. Most of this gathering would be sold with a few being donated... (more)