There is a quite a bit of exceitement over CP reactivating some remaining Soo Line SD60s, but the real excitement should be over this pair of classic Soo Line GP40s (4603/4601) paired together in ... (more)
The Easter Bunny was kind to me today as the only two remaining ex-Soo GP40s still in classic Soo Line paint were paired together on a transfer to Duluth. Considering they were built in 1967 and s... (more)
Headed for Superior with a cut of cars from Duluth
An EMD leaser and a Santa GP tug 63 cars from Duluth's Rice's Point and Mike's Yard across the now frozen St. Louis River in a fairly intense snow squall.
A large 85 car transfer wraps it's way around Rice Point as the 477 foot Alexia comes into port on a perfect early summer sfternoon.
A large transfer shoves a cut of cars into the almost full yard at Rice Point as the yard power waits to move it around. The rest of the large 85 transfer waits along the highway to be moved. T... (more)
In early evening a pair of switchers roll the Duluth Transfer off the former NP Grassy Point bridge linking Superior and Duluth.
Trains are big but they are dwarfed by the boats on the Great Lakes. A 54-car Duluth transfer passes the 1,000 foot American Integrity, docked at Hallet Dock #5.
Headed back to Superior after interchanging with the CP and BNSF in Duluth
The twice-weekly UP transfer to Duluth passes under a CN ore train dumping at their dock.
Saturdays Duluth transfer sits in Itasca yard waiting to be dealt with
Two leased GP-38s drag a healthy UP transfer across Grassy Point Drawbridge and into Duluth on a bone chilling day.
LLPX 2247 heads up todays UP transfer to Duluth
BNSF 3448 meets another job with a few empty coal cars
BNSF 3448 heads across Grassy Point Draw with 104 empties for Superior