A nice gathering of EMD power as three SD60s wait to lift limestone loads to Proctor while a Bessemer sandwich runs around its train on the ore dock.

Big Sky - Big Clouds. The clouds parted just long enough to catch this empty grain train with five GEs on the point crossing over the impressive Cut Bank Creek trestle.

DM&IR 402 leads maroon sister 403 upgrade out of Two Harbors with ore empties for Minntac with the cold deep blue of Lake Superior in the distance.

A loaded ore train interchanged with CN slowly crosses the former NP Grassy Point draw between Superior and Duluth. The Spirit Mountain ski hill can be seen in the distance.

The different faces of EMD.

E&LS 400 leads two units leased from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum (Erie Mining F9 4211 and Soo GP30 700). The trio will move down the original E&LS line towards Escanaba to pick up storage ca... (more)

BNSF was clearing some of the two feet of snow the Twin Ports have received in recent weeks. Certainly not a Confederate Railroad, as seen on the billboard.

A pair of Milwaukee Road SD40-2s move CN (DW&P) interchange traffic south on BN rails towards St. Paul after the Soo Line purchase.

CN crew heats the rail at the busy junction between the Missabe and Superior Subdivisions prior to making repairs to the rail. Despite the warm weather today (+38F) it is the season for rail break... (more)

Two contract employees from Lakehead Constructors work to clear yard switches while a pair of units await their next assignment.

Light rain heightens the color of this FM and the Alco RSD-4 on the adjacent track at the Northwest Railroad Museum operation.

This former SP unit certainly has character. We don't get many of these in Duluth so it is a treat for local fans.

A long string of stored mostly non dash-2 EMDs.

The pride of the E&LS fleet rests at Saunders waiting to be picked up by the WC for a trip back to Michigan after spending time at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

Going out in style. The final LTV Steel Mining Company revenue ore train departs the mine for Taconite Harbor in 2001. The lead F9, still lettered for Erie Mining Company, flys a large American fl... (more)