A contrast in orange and green as a BNSF GP38-2 passes the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's ex-GN diner Lake of the Isles (coming back from winter storage at Pokegama).

Lake Superior Railroad Museum equipment waits to get picked up by the BNSF for delivery to the NSSR after spending the winter at the CN (DMIR) Proctor and (DWP) Pokegama yards. This shot was not e... (more)

I tried to get as many shots of this set as I could, because like the "common Missabe and WC", they will be gone before we know it.

I arrived with LITERALLY 5 seconds to run out and take this shot. 3 beautiful orange motors drag limestone up Proctor Hill and are shown here digging into the steep grade.

A matched set of clean B&LE 900s work 157 empty ore cars towards Proctor. The new cars had been in all-rail ore service this past winter to Escanaba.

As parishioners fill the church on the hillside, a pair of ex-Frisco MP15s shove cars into Rice's Point yard on a pleasant Sunday morning.

A pair of SD60Fs in helper service shove hard on the rear of this northbound core train just west of Duluth.

A matched set of clean B&LE 900s move 28 loaded limestone side-dump cars up the 2.2% of Proctor Hill.

Our hopes were answered when CN assembled a solid set of B&LE 900s (909, 906, 900) and put them on a Proctor Roadswitch job today. Here the trio head towards Proctor with BNSF interchange traffic.... (more)

Our hopes were answered when CN assembled a solid set of B&LE 900s and put them on a Proctor Raodswitch job today. Here the trio run light towards Missabe Junction to pick up BNSF interchange traf... (more)

Nice looking powerset heads downgrade at Keene Creek. Now we just need the #909 washed and the IC motor replaced with an orange one! I will say that the BLE orange weathers the dull spring season ... (more)

A newcomer to the Missabe, B&LE #906 leads sister #909 and an IC unit down to the docks. Ok ok CN this was a pretty good consist. Just need a third BLE unit!

Limestone heads up the hill behind some nice, and soon to be replaced power.

Two CN Dash 8's lead a hopper towards the BNSF in Duluth.

Rush hour in Duluth-- Rice's Point switchers are on the job. Since I did not get to shoot High Falls in New York, I decided to vacation in Duluth (for the balmy weather) and I am glad I did.