Winter arrived this week with 5 inches of snow Thanksgiving evening and temps around zero this morning. The low morning sun gives this image a cold feel.

CP job switches Duluth's Port Terminal on a beautiful evening.

Late afternoon as a switch job with a pair of unrepainted SW1000s works the former NP yard in Duluth. You can tell it is grain season, as almost every track has some cars on it.

An excavator on a Herzog slot train works to clear a drainage prior to snow melting.

SD38 No. 204 has been sold to Larry's Truck & Electric and will probably be scrapped at Proctor.

After a demanding winter in 2012-2013 these two former Great Northern snow dozers were rebuilt, only to sit out the past two mild winters.

On their first revenue run for Northshore Mining, two big SD9043MACs lead 156 loaded ore cars towards Silver Bay. NSM has leased this pair for two years.

Old and cold. These three 1907-built ore cars lasted as long as they did on the DM&IR because of their manual door opening wheels located on either end. They made great cars in ballast service. Lo... (more)

The first DM&IR SD38-2 repainted into CN colors works its first assignment after having been delivered back to home rails. The Keenan Switch is picking up the unit at Shelton Junction.

A recently acquired EMD demo brings up the rear of a 200-car ore train as it heads for CN's dock facility at Escanaba, Michigan. The port of Escanaba can ship earlier in the season than ice-choked... (more)

A Mineral Range train of empty covered gondolas used to haul copper and nickel concentrate backs into Euclid Yard as a group of snowmobiles waits to cross the track at a grade crossing.

An interesting side-by-side display finds veteran ore hauling steam locomotive 506 (Alco 1919) next to GM's 1955 Aerotrain, last used by Rock Island in Chicago commuter service.

One of Reserve Mining's rare SD28s leads four side dump cars and the mining railroad's private car towards the interchange with the DM&IR at Norshor Junction. The parlor car had been sold to the E... (more)

Only at a railroad museum could you find a locomotive consist like this in 2015, or any year for that matter. Erie Mining 4211 and GN NW-5 192 sandwich a former Minnesota Power GE center cab while... (more)

We loved the variety when BN assigned a number of freshly painted former Frisco GP35s to Superior. They were easy to spot with top-mounted air tanks that allowed for larger fuel tanks. Unfortunate... (more)