A massive cloud of fugitive dust rises as an ore train dumps into the dock while the Canadian Steamship Line's vessel Rt. Hon. Paul J. Martin loads. CN does have a water deluge system on the appro... (more)

The DM&IR's main engine facility at Proctor. The portion of the roundhouse with the black roof was added in the early 1940s to accomidate the Missabe's massive 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones.

NP SD45 3617 rests at BNSF's former NP Rices Point yard in Duluth while en route to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, where Monad logos, correct numberboards and horn will be put on. The big EMD ... (more)

Don't put your life on our line. So reads newspaper advertisements CN runs seasonally in Duluth to remind snowmobiles to stay off their tracks. Here the crew of M343 has just extracted a smashed s... (more)

A standard design scale test car owned by the State of Minnesota makes even a short 24' ore car look huge. The Missabe converted this car to scale monitoring duty.

BNSF's 2019 Employee Special rolls west though Cloquet on the Lakes Subdivision after boarding passengers at Carlton.

While there are many great lodging establishments that have a railroad theme and are close to active lines, the Izaak Walton Inn on Marias Pass is a railfan's paradise. Adding inspiration (as if o... (more)

Workers ease a heavy component onto a 16-axle depressed center flat car at the Port of Duluth. The car is expected to a take a CP/DME routing to South Dakota this week as a special move.

Looking east along the former mainline of the Wisconsin Central (Soo Line/DSS&A) at Diamond Junction. The signals have been deactivated after WC abandoned this track in 1997 after purchasing Union... (more)

After a very successful two-year display period at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, a replica of President Lincoln's funeral car is being shipped by truck to its next viewing location in Antioch... (more)

A loaded ore train bound for Two Harbors derailed a number of its new cars on the west wye switch at Iron Junction, causing a major disruption to traffic at the busiest junction in northeastern Mi... (more)

The 36-axle Schnabel car is gingerly moved through tight tracks in Duluth on its way to Alberta.

I'm not sure what is more interesting - the matched set of Soo Line GP38-2s in 2018 or the BNSF hopper that wanted to free range on a local gravel road.

A pair of CP ECOs switch Duluth's Port Terminal in a thick fog on a quiet Sunday morning.

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 crossing BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point Draw linking Duluth and Superior. The pos... (more)