Flying over Rice's Point while a pair of GP20C-ECOs start their shift. Taken from a Chartered Cessna.

Two DC GEVOs lead the CN Executives down Steelton Hill on their trip inspecting the territory, and viewing the hill before it was double tracked.

CN 6018's crew in conjunction with the dock crew are about at the half way point of dumping their train of taconite pellets. Across the bay, BNSF is doing the same thing but with coal at the MER... (more)

CN 6018 begins to shove 145 ore cars loaded with taconite pellets onto the CN dock 6 for dumping.

IC 6263 pulls ore empties up Proctor Hill and back to CN's Proctor Yard for eventual re-loading on the Mesabi Iron Range.

Soo 2500 leads a photo freight on the North Shore Scenic Railroad in East Duluth, MN.

IC 6253 and two tunnel motors spot ore loads for direct dumping into the 1004 ft. ore carrier American Spirit at CN Dock 6 in Duluth, MN.

This grizzled SW1 starts the evening shift along the silos. Delivered to Chicago & Northwestern in 1953 and sold to Cargill in the late 1970's.

B&LE 903 pulls empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill after dumping Taconite at the Duluth docks, and back to the Mesabi Iron Range for another trainload.

B&LE 904 lifts limestone loads out of Missabe Jct. as a taconite load awaits dumping at CN Dock 6 in Duluth. The limestone is bound for the Taconite plants of Minnesota's famed Mesabi Iron Range.

No drones were used or abused in the taking of this shot.

CN 8825 waits for a signal to clear so it can proceed up Steelton Hill and head north to Ft. Francis, ON and Winnipeg. The train is on former DMIR trackage which has undergone major improvements w... (more)

The engineer on LSM #46 keeps an eye on the ROW as it slowly trundles along the St. Louis River south of Duluth, MN in July of 2000. Despite being the smaller of the two museums in Duluth, it is w... (more)

A repainted DMIR tunnel motor holds on the Duluth dock with a ore train.

After a very successful two-year display period at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, a replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is being shipped by truck to its next viewing location in Antioch... (more)