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)

A replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is unloaded at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The museum will display the car, with related artifacts, from June through September. Built by Dave K... (more)

The Skyline Parkway in Duluth is a great place to get an overview of the area and this day was a perfect example. An empty DM&IR ore train is departing the dock with empties for Proctor while a BN... (more)

Oh what a beautiful sound. DMIR 158 leads two sister as they prepare to assault the grade to Proctor in May of 1992. Gotta love those hi-hood early EMD's.

May 10 marks the 12th anniversary of CN's 2004 purchase of Great Lakes Transportation (DM&IR, B&LE, Great Lakes Fleet). A bit less than a year after the purchase crews lift a new CN sign into plac... (more)

A mini "Hill Lines" streamliner rests on CN in Duluth after having spent the winter stored at Proctor. The cars and locomotive are being brought back to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum... (more)

A fairly clean EMD power set shoves 48 empty ore cars past the laker Joseph L. Block that is in the process of unloading limestone. The limestone will be loaded into the ore cars 6252 is positioni... (more)

No drones were used or abused in the taking this shot.

The buds of spring. With Lake Superior in the distance, Budd-built track evaluation RDC 1501 sprints up Proctor Hill as trees are starting to show fresh buds. This RDC-1 was originally built as CN... (more)

Three recently washed former C&NW C40-8s lug 60 cars loaded with limestone up Proctor Hill with eventual delivery to U.S. Steel's Minntac mine at Mountain Iron, Minnesota. Lead 2112 wears CN's pri... (more)

A trackmobile operated by Lake Superior Warehousing has positioned heavy duty flat cars for loading of dimensional loads at Duluth's Port Terminal. The vessel Fairlift brought eight large pieces b... (more)

BNSF yard job 110 prepares to move a special high-wide train from Duluth to Superior prior to a road crew taking it west to Montana with CP taking over there for the final move into Alberta. The l... (more)