Dry conditions combined with a stiff breeze fanned sparks from a rail grinder into a moderate grass fire. Crews on the grinder and those following on a special Northshore Mining fire train doused ... (more)

Back when fall really meant a grain rush in the Twin Ports. An empty BN unit grain train heads out of Superior while a Soo Line grain empty holds under Tower Avenue waiting for the BN to clear.

It is hard to beat a beautiful fall day in Minnesota and what better way to spend it by riding in an open gondola.

DMIR 403 and CN 6013 rest on a track at the diesel house after being towed to Proctor after being involved in a derailment of a loaded ore train at Fairbanks earlier in the week. Both suffered gea... (more)

An F9A leads an interesting road set on ore loads departing the mine for Taconite Harbor. The F9A is preserved and operational today at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth.

A traditionally painted Soo Line geep has just finished spotting box cars at Lake Superior Warehousing and is headed back to its yard. The Great Lakes Fleet (CN) tug-barge Presque Isle is in the d... (more)

A sliver of light illuminates an ex-Milwaukee Road GP38-2, fitting considering Milwaukee Road 261 had arrived an hour earlier. BNSF's ore dock complex can be seen in the distance and the thousand ... (more)

A special consist put together by the four Class I railroads serving Duluth-Superior plus a Budd RDC borrowed from the North Shore Scenic Railroad rolled through Superior in conjunction with local... (more)

A pair of GP50s sandwich a trio of cabless GEs as BN train 196 rolls east near Big Timber on the MRL. The Crazy Mountains provide a nice backdrop while the irrigated field complements BN's Cascade... (more)

These two have seen better days.

A sharp looking ex-C&NW/UP Dash-8 leads a loaded ore train out of the Minntac plant. Seven miles later this train would derail a number of its new ore cars on the west wye switch at Iron Junction.... (more)

An empty limestone train cuts trail after a late season storm dumped over a foot of new snow.

A faded Dakota Rail F7 (ex-Milwaukee Road) rests at the end of a former BN branch line (now abandoned).

A North Western train from the Twin Cities (via BN trackage rights) waits to enter DM&IR trackage on its way to Itasca Yard in far eastern Superior while power for a BN all-rail ore train heads fo... (more)

Freshly washed B&LE 903 leads DM&IR 403 and sister 900 up Proctor Hill with Lake Superior in the distance.