A CP transfer run from Duluth to Superior passes CN ore dock 6 as the classic laker Michipicoten arrives to load ore for Essar Soo.

A Proctor Roadswitch crew lifts 48 cars of Minorca limestone up Proctor Hill as a major fire rages at the Husky oil refinery in Superior. Fortunately there were no fatalities and the fire was exti... (more)

GP20 ECO leads a transfer job .

A blue hour image of a loaded 60-car train of limestone heading up Proctor Hill while the American Century and Philip R. Clarke load ore at CN's ore dock. Tug Helen H assists the Clarke.

The first ship of the season, the James R. Barker, backs toward CN ore dock No. 6 while a crew pulls empties off the dock and a BNSF coal train unloads across the bay at Midwest Energy.

Things are not what they seem. Former Rock Island GP38-2 now in GT colors has been assigned to the DWP to replace aging Alco RS11s in Duluth. By 1984 they would be re-lettered DWP, and by 1985, th... (more)

Canadian Pacific job HS12 switches the Duluth port terminal while the Clyde S VanEnkevort and Edwin H Gott await the start of the 2018 shipping season.

A quartet of DWP RS11s are joined by a Milwaukee Road SD40-2 on a rainy day at their West Duluth yard in October 1982. In 2 years the yard would be vacated and moved to Pokegama, WI south of Super... (more)

CN 2834 leads a combined sand and oil train up Steelton hill on Duluth's southwest side over former Missabe trackage. At this point one can see the old Missabe route behind the train. The bridge o... (more)

The North Shore Scenic Railroad is northbound over the Little Sucker River trestle on their fall color train run to Two Harbors with a former Missabe veteran leading the way.

ATSF 57, a full RPO car sits forlornly on a spur in Duluth MN weathering yet another winter. Quick research showed that this car had been at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay as recently a... (more)

CN 2571 and two other GEs serve as helpers on Steelton hill near Duluth, MN, helping a westbound (northbound) sand/oil train up the grade. They will drop off once the train tops the grade and the ... (more)

Heading north to Two Harbors

Great Northern NW5 No. 192 pauses during switching at Duluth, Minnesota, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on June 10, 2016. Only 13 rare EMD NW5s were built between December 1946 and February ... (more)

DNE 28 lets off a little steam (and smoke) at Duluth Union Depot as it prepares to take the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Society on a tour to Two Harbors, MN and back.