A couple impressive pieces of machinery, MILW 261 and SOO 2500 hang out briefly at the depot in Duluth, MN.

A special passenger train operated from Minneapolis to Duluth and return heads across St. Louis Bay and into Wisconsin where it will couple up with Milwaukee Road 261 for the trip to the Twin Citi... (more)

MILW 261 rests in the back yard of the Duluth depot after a hard day pulling a passenger excursion from Minneapolis to Duluth. It is scheduled to return to it's home in Minneapolis today (Sunday... (more)

Long after most people had left , the crew is still working into the night to get MILW 261 ready for the trip back to Minneapolis. Here they are taking on coal by the light of the moon and with a... (more)

A couple of impressive pieces of machinery share the yard at the Depot in downtown Duluth, MN.

DMIR 203 and 207 round the famous curve near the top of Proctor Hill with a trainload of ore empties returning from the Duluth dock to Proctor Yard for shipment back to the iron range. The St. Lou... (more)

A pair of BNSF standard cab B40-8s sandwich a CP GE.

A Canadian Pacific transfer job works their yard towards the end of Rices Point on Duluth's waterfront.

One of the more eclectic consists to grace Duluth was this set including a pair of B40-8s (598 and 588) sandwiching a CP GE.

A pair of locomotives fresh from GE lead a southbound manifest train through western Duluth.

DMIR 203 and 207 get their trainload of empty ore jennies underway from the Duluth docks as they approach N. 40th Ave. W. crossing and start the climb up Proctor Hill. The crew gets a tip of the h... (more)

Soo 2500A leads Erie Mining F9A 4211 through Duluth's lower downtown area en route back to Union Depot after a nice run to Two Harbors. The retired ore carrier William A. Irvin ( a former U.S. Ste... (more)

Rebuilt MILW GP9s wait for their train to St. Paul to be readied at Northern Pacific's Rice's Point Yard in July 1969. Milwaukee Road utilized trackage rights on NP and later BN between St. Paul a... (more)

CN's L-599 transfer job with three SD60s and 60 empty limestone cars rolls past a Proctor Roadswitch that was spotting ore cars on Dock 6.

The relatively new paint on 5436 contrasts with the chipped and blistering paint on the ore carrier Roger Blough, which is also owned by CN but operated by a U.S. firm.