The two Proctor Roadswitch Jobs meet in Duluth. The morning jobs arrives at Dock 6 with ore loads while the night job handles commercial traffic for the mines.

The death stars soldier on hauling ore as the IC 6251 leads a sister and newly painted SD40-2W north on a slow moving empty for U-Tac

IC 2723 leads 332 through the S-curve at Hamilton West.

IC 6250 positions ore cars on the top of Dock #1 as the retired DM&IR steam tug Edna G waits for the day's tourists to arrive.

Coming down from U.S. Steel Minntac with 135 loads of steaming taconite pellets heading for Proctor, MN and ulimately the docks on the shores of Lake Superior.

A few wisps of steam can still be seen as taconite loads come to a stop short of the scale in proctor. DMIR 215 (still in marron) is paired with DMIR 211 working a cut of cars at the west end of ... (more)

The river job returns to Joliet with the 6201 and 662 in the lead consist. Great crew and P5 on this guy!

A late, return trip of the L509 made for quite the nice sight this morning, as IC 6201 (Operation Lifesaver) and EJ&E 662 (J-Ball) lead their train over the famous EJ&E Bridge 198 in the backgroun... (more)

Three SD40-3's pull 135 ore cars full of new taconite pellets southbound through Biwabik on the way to Two Harbors, MN.

CN 112 approaching Longlac, passing over the Kenogami River

Normally, the return trip of the L509 (River Line Job) occurs during the middle of the night, but on this sunny morning it's seen heading back to the East Joliet Yard at 10:45. IC 9619 and GTW 491... (more)

This was the first SD40X demonstrator, built on a SD35 frame, and sold to the GM&O after its demo days.

A fake IC Dash 9 is in charge of this northbound manifest, as it strolls through downtown Plainfield, with help from a fellow CN Dash 9 and an HLCX GP38-2. Not sure how the HLCX wound up in there,... (more)

A southbound passenger is throttling up as it leaves the IC station.

IC 2703 + CN 2573 have CN 190's 155 platforms of Prince Rupert imports inhand passing through Gamsby, and beside the ballast regulator that I operate.