There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad Class P-2 boxcar sits on United Taconite property as 3153 cubic feet of storage capacity or a storage s... (more)

While not rare it is unusual to see a Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 parked in the yard at Biwabik, MN on a ore train. This train is 195 cars long and will travel to U.S. Steel's Minntac plant for load... (more)

Looking south east from above the Laurentian Divide at Arcelor Mittal’s Minorca Mine processing plant. Right side is the rail line into the facility. Upper right is the tailings pond, upper cen... (more)

A road power set shoves three sets of mini quads that are bad order towards the shops in a busy Proctor Yard. There are five jobs actively moving around the yard doing various things. From the ... (more)

It's officially spring but there is still plenty of ice in the harbor as Minnesota experiences a colder than normal spring. The shipping season is well underway though as two ships and one train ... (more)

Work continues on the D&NE #28, as it's sitting in the shop it once called home many years ago. This ex-DM&IR #332 2-8-0 now owned by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum is being cosmetically resto... (more)

Sometimes size doesn't matter. The most modern grain handling elevator in the Twin Ports relies on this little GE black and yellow centercab to do it's switching and moving of cars around the faci... (more)

Everybody likes F Units. A couple guys snap off their shots of Cliffs Erie 4211 and SOO 2500 as the pair do a few switching moves in the small yard after returning from Two Harbors, MN. DMIR 193... (more)

It's 0230 on a quiet very early Sunday morning and the only things moving are the full moon and some clouds above the CN Virginia yard.

SOO 2500 rests after a hard day of work pulling excursion trains along the North Shore of Lake Superior meanwhile DMIR 193 shoves the evening dinner train towards the platform along side. What's ... (more)

The two man crew of Laurentian Aggregates uses this former Southern Pacific GP35 to spot cars for loading blast furnace trim or RR ballast made from crushing waste taconite rock on United Taconite... (more)

The many colors of CN. Maroon DM&IR 210 leads a southbound limestone train along with a repainted into CN colors former Missabe unit and a black Illinios Central unit.

A CN stack train races north through the yard on the main as a Loram rail grinding train ties down for the night.

Sailing across the four lane as they roll out of the Duluth city limits and travel up the coast of Lake Superior for Two Harbors.

A little street running action on Rices Point along Duluth's industrial waterfront on a Friday afternoon as they work to keep the customers happy.