Erie Mining Company Fairmont Hy-Rail motor car No. 8440 is from another era of track inspection, and was used on the 74-mile taconite-hauling railroad operating from Hoyt Lakes to Taconite Harbor,... (more)

Great Northern NW5 No. 192 switches cars for the Lester River Turn, also known as the “Duluth Zephyr,” at Duluth Minnesota, on June 10, 2016. Only 13 rare EMD NW5s were built between December ... (more)

The large box headlight of Northern Pacific’s first locomotive shines brightly next to SD45 No. 3617 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum at Duluth, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016. The wood-burning... (more)

A DWP transfer run heads southwest on BN trackage under the overpass that leads to the DMIR ore docks on Duluth's west end. The pair of GP38-2s are fairly recent arrivals to the property having st... (more)

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stood guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while as DMIR #189 switches the dock in the b... (more)

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 arriving in Duluth. The positive side is that the weather enhanced the steam... (more)

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 crossing BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point Draw linking Duluth and Superior. The pos... (more)

Riding High. Lake Superior Railroad Museum's Mack industrial switcher positions a shop truck under Soo 700 during a wheel/motor swap on 700's original truck.

Nearly 100 years of locomotive evolution is on display in Duluth as Northern's Pacific's first locomotive the Minnetonka (Smith & Porter 1870) poses next to one of NP's last locomotives SD45 3617 ... (more)

DMIR power yard Duluth

DMIR 210 leads an SD38/tunnel motor trio on a dock ore train as it begins its descent down Proctor Hill to the Duluth ore docks. Loads typically ran left handed down the grade, although by this ti... (more)

Starting from a near dead stop, the two Missabe motors are really digging in here as they lug 147 sand cars up the stiff grade towards Duluth.

A track renewal project at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum has opened up a temporary unobstructed view of the fireman's side of 4-4-0 William Crooks, the first locomotive in Minnesota. The locom... (more)

A beautiful evening finds a CP transfer rolling past CN's former DM&IR ore dock in West Duluth as the laker Arthur M. Anderson eases up to the shiploader for a cargo of taconite pellets.

Taking advantage of a heavy-lift crane used the day prior to unload Lincoln's funeral car, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum used the same crane plus another to change out a wheel/motor assembly f... (more)