A young couple takes a break after hiking to the summit of Elys Peak in far western Duluth as CN's Proctor Transfer sprints up Steelton Hill on an unseasonably warm (70F) fall day.

B&LE 900, painted in CN colors, leads two other units toward the Lakehead Storage Facility to pick up a cut of ore cars filled with limestone, which is being delivered by the Laker Joseph L. Block... (more)

Hallett Dock's former N&W NW-2 positions cars of bentonite clay for unloading at their number 5 dock in Duluth. Piles of limestone are on the right.

This former Milwaukee Road SW1 moves a cut of empty tank cars stored on the shortline Wisconsin Great Northern.

New GE 3119 towers over the FRA's test car (DOT 219) as the train descends Steelton Hill in far western Duluth.

BNSF is testing EMD’s new Tier 4 models (SD70ACeP4-T4) on freight trains operating between Minneapolis (Northtown) and Superior, Wisconsin.

A pair of leased EMDs lead ore empties out of the Lake Superior Basin, northwest of Silver Bay. Fall color is near peak.

BNSF is testing EMD’s new Tier 4 models (SD70ACeP4-T4) on freight trains operating between Minneapolis (Northtown) and Superior, Wisconsin. Here 1604 and 1603 ease their long train across the sc... (more)

CN dock crews load blast furnace trim (crushed iron bearing taconite rock) into the hold of the laker Arthur M. Anderson. The taconite was mined at U.S. Steel's Minntac plant. The use of gravity t... (more)

A number of stored former Reserve Mining SD9s mingle with Baldwin locomotives at E&LS's shop at Wells (Escanaba). Cessna 172.

A trio of former WICT F-units rests with NP round-end observation car Ranier Club at the E&LS shop. The passenger car is being repainted for the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. At the bot... (more)

A seldom seen view inside the tight confines of the rotary dumping shed at the large MERC coal dock in Superior as a BNSF coal train from the Powder River Basin is unloaded.

A trio of C40-8s pick up empty ore cars off Dock 6 while the laker Roger Blough departs with a load of ore for Conneaut. This was the first trip for the Blough in over two months after a serious g... (more)

Riverland Ag's former Cargill SW1 No. 1278 is dwarfed by gain silos as it positions hoppers for unloading. This switcher typically doesn't make an appearance in the evening but a foreign vessel wa... (more)

A pair of former GN F7As painted in Wabash colors lead a photo freight across a Wisconsin road during a charter on shortline Wisconsin Great Northern.