On October 19, 1985, a DW&P transfer bound for C&NW’s Itasca Yard passes through Saunders, Wisconsin. The train is powered by two freshly-painted ex-Rock Island GP38-2s. Overhead is a BN taconit... (more)

A lone SD40-2 leads a cut of tank cars for the Calumet Refinery in Superior. They will run around the cut in the Old Town Yard and head back to the refinery to finish switching a few minutes later

An empty rail train heads North on the CN through Superior

A man and his dog take a leisurely walk down the tracks on a nice spring afternoon while in the distance the U.P. local switches a small yard on Superior's east side of town.

Following the departure of coal empties moments ago, a transfer crew is about to enter the large BNSF 28th Street yard in Superior with today's train which is coming over from Duluth.

Coal empties depart Superior and Detroit Edison's Midwest Energy Resources dock headed back for another load of PRB coal. MERC is BNSF's largest single coal destination. The city of Duluth, MN ca... (more)

April showers bring May flowers. BNSF's Old Town Job arrives at East End (Superior) ahead of rain clouds.

2117 switches grain hoppers at the CHS elevators in Superior WI.

A light rain and heavy fog mix doesn't stop the day crew and their former Soo Line SW9 from moving grain hoppers around inside the large CHS elevator complex on the Lake Superior waterfront in Sup... (more)

A transfer from Duluth emerges from pea soup fog into bright sunlight on the Wisconsin side of the St. Louis River. Unseasonably warm air is coming in contact with cold air off Lake Superior and c... (more)

A couple of CN cowls 5428, 5443 along with 5291 power train 341 near Saunders.

The first E-Rail of the year stretches out across the long former DM&IR bridge. Missabe property (now WC) engineer Ben Nygaard is qualifying on the WC (the real WC) and ironically got an ore trai... (more)

BNSF crew moves an empty ore train from Allouez (Superior, WI) to Stleeton Yard (Duluth, MN). CN and BNSF team up to move ore from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to BNSF's ore factility in Superior. T... (more)

Missabe steam rolls again! After 37 years of static display, Duluth & Northeastern 28 - formerly Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 332 - rolls down the BNSF main line south of Saunders pulled/pushed by... (more)

Was hoping for the nice BN GP30 leading but instead got stuck with this ex Penn Central Rent-A-Wreck.