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.

The Missabe's 07:00 Proctor Roadswitch brings GN 400 "Hustle Muscle" to Duluth after the SD45 spent the winter in the heated Proctor roundhouse for the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The SD45 (ow... (more)

This sharp looking geometry "TEST" train is seen rolling north on the former DW&P near Duluth. It appears this car might be a recent conversion freshly painted in the attractive engineer... (more)

The yellow flags on the side of the F9s is a nice touch but it is Old Glory that takes center stage as the final LTV Steel Mining Company mainline ore train departs for the dock at Taconite Harbor... (more)

The ore carrier Presque Isle is moored between the docks in Two Harbors as an SD40-3 shoves empty cars into the outgoing yard on a cold and blustery spring day. The vessel is waiting for a Coast G... (more)

Special heavy load Schnabel train from Duluth to Alberta rolls north towards Canada at 15 mph.

BNSF 8970 on the rear of a loaded ore train at Allouez yard. The wye here hasn't been used in years. In the steam era it was used to turn locomotives, including GN's massive 2-8-8-0 N-2 class that... (more)

This former Milwaukee Road SD9 is painted in a unique scheme to celebrate the 1993 centennial for the town of Oacoma located across the Missouri from Chamberlain. An Alco C420 and an SD7 join it.

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.

A nice sampling of EMD power at the former DM&IR engine facility located northwest of Duluth.

Looking more like Alliance, Nebraska in the late 1970s versus Upper Michigan in 2016, BN green dominates this view of LS&I's engine and car shop. From left to right are leased CEFX 1001/1012 (acti... (more)

A pair of former Great Northern SD9s work the waterfront in Superior as the idled laker J. L. Mauthe rests in the distance. The Mauthe would be converted into the barge Pathfinder not long after t... (more)

The BN local from Superior arrives in Ashland on a rainy fall day. Too bad the Ashland Ore Dockers class of 1980 decided to re-letter the bridge and the classic NP Monad at the start of their seni... (more)

An aerial view of CN's former DM&IR roundhouse at Proctor.

An empty Granite City all-rail taconite train heads for loading at Minntac during a moderate snowfall.