A CN crew spots ore cars for unloading at Dock 6 as the veteran laker s/s Wilfred Sykes loads for Indiana Harbor as the end of the Lake Superior shipping season nears.

BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN.

Limestone loads pass a loaded ore train that's waiting to be dumped at CN's Dock 6 before attacking Proctor Hill.

After coming down from United Taconite with 138 cars of taconite pellets to Proctor, a yard crew has now brought the train down to the CN ore dock 6 and begins to unload.

A single engine and four cars wait to depart BNSF and head back to their own yard on Rices Point in Duluth. Trains are small in the grand view of things.

NP SD45 3617 leads a beer tasting train South across state highway 61 and into Duluth.

An empty ore train screams up Proctor Hill on it's way to Proctor yard, with 2 out of the final 3 remaining BLE tunnel motors in the Iron Range region.

After being shopped for two weeks, to our surprise, we see IC 6251 shove a limestone set underneath I-35. After getting signals, we race up the line to watch the quartet of SD40s crawl uphill in s... (more)

CN 3023, the EJ&E heritage unit leads the Family Days special North at Spirit Mountain.

DM&IR SD38-2 215 and SDM 193 pose for photos at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth.

DM&IR SD38-2 215 leads equipment from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum North up Proctor Hill. The rolling stock is heading to Proctor to be used on a family days special the following day.

A loaded ore train gets ready to shove back into the docks with a trio of SD40s on point

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6255 and 5338 shuttle empty hoppers to be loaded with limestone at the docks

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. Alongsid... (more)