A limestone train for United Taconite departs Duluth while another train dumps its load of iron ore on Dock 6. The James R Barker is at the shiploader while the Roger Blough is on the east (right)... (more)

Timing is everything, and everything came together as three trains converged at CN (former DM&IR) Dock 6 while the distinctive Algoma Central laker John D. Leitch loaded ore. Great light and color... (more)

Earlier this year former Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 number 28 (ex-DM&IR 332) was moved from Cloquet back to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Cloquet Terminal Railroad had started rest... (more)

Scenes like this were all too common in the late 1980s and 1990s as railroads replaced their caboose fleets with end-of-train devices. Most of this gathering would be sold with a few being donated... (more)

Rails to the bay, literally. In the distant past this area of Agate Bay was used by commercial fisherman who launched their large boats using dollies mounted on track, using scrap rail likely laid... (more)

CN's Santa Train made a stop at the former DM&IR shop and yard complex at Proctor.

Standing out in a sea of Rock Island blue, GTW 5629 awaits a call to duty that will never come. Fitting location considering it was rusting away in a yard of the deceased Rock Island.

The final train of the season to Two Harbors returns to Duluth behind Hustle Muscle as sun fights with clouds. The passengers on the sold-out North Shore Scenic Railroad train enjoyed a nice sampl... (more)

The last hurrah for the Cliffs Erie F9s as they make their last trip between Hoyt Lakes and Taconite Harbor. Here they arrive at the Harbor and prepare to spot cars for limestone loading. The Fs ... (more)

A 3-unit helper set with relatively new 4404 leads MRL's local 841 and its two GP35s back to Livingston.

A temperature inversion at sunrise has trapped steam rising off freshly baked taconite pellets at CN's former DM&IR yard at Proctor, Minnesota. A trio of Missabe tunnel motors will head north for ... (more)

BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.

Kicking up some of the 2+ feet of snow received this week north of Two Harbors.

An interesting collection of locomotive models occupy the deadline at Chamberlain.

CN has assigned a number of horsepower payback BNSF and UP AC units to northeastern Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Here two BNSF units power a crude (unprocessed) ore train dumping at the Fairlane... (more)