The Proctor Roadswitch departs Rices Point light engine after having delivered interchange. The BNSF units on the right are making up the evening's Duluth Transfer for a return to Superior and wi... (more)

Great Northern "Hustle Muscle" leads DM&IR SD18 No. 193 on a train of empty tank cars for short term storage on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

What a son tells his mother early on Sunday morning - "Mom, your car is stuck on the railroad track in downtown Duluth." Fortunately her insurance company paid the healthy fee to have it... (more)

A rare view (taken with permission) of Great Northern's former ore dock No. 1 in the Allouez neighborhood of Superior. This dock, last used in 1988, loaded the great lakes vessel Edmund Fitzgerald... (more)

A nice line-up of first generation EMD diesels for a special photo shoot at the Wisconsin Great Northern. Lighting by Steve Smedley and Jeffy Terry.

This car is noted as being the first all aluminum open top hopper built in the United States by Alcoa in 1931. It was the prototype car and is lettered Monon to reflect the heritage of the rail li... (more)

A busy evening at CN's Dock 6 in Duluth as the afternoon roadswitch job doubles its empty ore train together for a trip back to Proctor. Note a BNSF coal train unloading across the bay.

Five F-units head back to Superior with their caboose after having delivered a loaded grain train to Duluth.

The operator has his train of empty ore cars well in hand as we approach the crossover at milepost 12.5. This train was following a loaded tailings train back to Babbitt and had two leased CREX GE... (more)

A trio of ore service C40-8s power a former C&NW Jordan Spreader up Steelton Hill in far western Duluth as a snowmobile passes by on a trail using an ex-Northern Pacific grade.

BNSF yard job 110 prepares to move a special high-wide train from Duluth to Superior prior to a road crew taking it west to Montana with CP taking over there for the final move into Alberta. The l... (more)

A blue hour image of a loaded 60-car train of limestone heading up Proctor Hill while the American Century and Philip R. Clarke load ore at CN's ore dock. Tug Helen H assists the Clarke.

The Lake Superior Railroad Museum helped celebrate the gold spike anniversary today as well as the 30th anniversary of the museum's operating arm the North Shore Scenic Railroad. What a fun was to... (more)

NP SD45 3617 and GN SD45 400 "Hustle Muscle" together at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Volunteers were doing some work on 3617 as the museum hopes to have it operational in the near... (more)

Where SD40s no longer tread. A view taken inside the DW&P's curved 520-ft tunnel in far western Duluth. Blasted out in 1912, this rugged line into Duluth was abandoned in 1984 when the Peg started... (more)