The ground remains damp from a thunderstorm that had just passed over Proctor yard as a limestone train prepares to depart for Minntac.

A special test move of the RailMate system - a cousin of the RoadRailer concept. The 5 semi trucks are loaded with aggregate loaded at Unitac for a road project in Central Minnesota.

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)

A loaded grain train dressed completely in BN's Cascade Green drifts downgrade just west of Summit at railroad location Marias.

A trio of BNSF units lift an empty 133-car ore train up CN's Proctor Hill. This was a rare occurrence to have a BNSF train on famed Proctor Hill. The train was headed for U.S. Steel's Minntac plan... (more)

Milwaukee 261 eases into Minnesota on its trip from Minneapolis to Duluth via Superior, Wisconsin.

Westbound towards Grand Forks just before being told to stop at Carlton and run around their train and bring it into Superior.

Eastbound Builder crosses the Two Medicine Bridge.

Santa has arrived in Duluth on a special maroon and gold sleigh and is delivering a gift to a young boy.

The dumper job heads back to the receiving yard at Escanaba to pick up another cut of loaded ore cars.

Nice first generation yard power mixes with a departing road train while a Soo Line train moves overhead..

A fitting scene for Veterans Day as the Grand Rapids Local makes a set-out in Cloquet before heading west. A hearty thank you to all active and retired military personnel.

This was the only time that UP's big Centennial ever visited the Twin Ports. It was powering an engineering inspection train and came up from St. Paul over BNSF and went south into Wisconsin over ... (more)

A loaded limestone train for Minntac passes by an ore train waiting to dump on the dock in West Duluth.

A nice (and unusual) gathering of three matched Bessemer units spot an ore train on the approach to Dock 6 in Duluth. The snowplow at the dealership will likely be busy before too long here in the... (more)