A close-up view of SOO 2500A's engine compartment after its radiator was removed for repair.

A string of transfer cabooses mingle with unused cars awaiting disposition after the demise of the Rock Island. Gondolas on the right are loaded with salvaged rail.

Soo 2719 rolls through downtown Duluth on the North Shore Scenic Railroad on its first revenue passenger run since arriving this past spring. Like the sign on the building says - Welcome to Dulut... (more)

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

A fairly clean EMD power set shoves 48 empty ore cars past the laker Joseph L. Block that is in the process of unloading limestone. The limestone will be loaded into the ore cars 6252 is positioni... (more)

Not a bad place to ride around the steel mill in the summer but not so sure I would want to be on this in January with the wind whipping down Lake Michigan.

I'm not sure of the story behind this boxcar but it is one of the more interesting ones I have ever photographed.

Strong thunderstorms rolled through Duluth and in the process knocked over a few double stack cars at the port terminal.

It isn't often that you find equipment freshly painted in BN's Cascade Green scheme. This box car looks sharp on display at Bandana Square, a former NP shop complex now used for offices, a hotel a... (more)

An empty ore train exists Cramer Tunnel on its way back to the mine. F9 4213 would be destroyed in a run-away at Taconite Harbor two years later.

A pair of Soo Line geeps (out of sight to the left) move a 750-ton reactor from the port of Duluth to interchange with BN at Rice's Point Yard. This train would depart for Canada two days later o... (more)

Beauty and the beast. The beautiful snow dusted mountain peaks contrast sharply to this once proud Milwaukee Road passenger engine. Not sure what became of it.

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)

Special 25-mph high-wide movement of an empty Schnabel Car from the Port of Duluth moves south of the Twin Ports behind a single CN unit en route to Chicago and points east for loading.

Trying to avoid the stinging wind and blowing snow, the conductor on L-593 opened the nose door on 4214 to protect a shove to the diesel house.