E&LS crews work in a bug infested environment to nudge derailed hopper cars back up to track level. This track is part of the former DSS&A (Soo Line) mainline between Sault Ste. Marie and Duluth, ... (more)

Two things Indiana is known for - corn and the Monon. Monon had a number of dual-purpose boxcars (boppers) designed with covered hopper-like loading hatches on the top for agricultural products. C... (more)

This wrecking crane doubles as a sign holder for this nice railroad museum near Monon.

The summer yellows are out in full bloom as the Duluth Transfer runs light engine past CN's Duluth ore dock as the M/V Indiana Harbor backs up to the shiploader.

With United Taconite temporally shut down the C40-8s normally used on raw ore trains to that plant have been seen on other assignments, including here in Duluth at the ore dock.

Grading and realignment work for CN's double track project on Steelton Hill in far western Duluth is going full speed this summer. Here a short northbound transfer passes by heavy earth moving equ... (more)

One of ArcelorMittal's many switch engines shoves a train of a molten steel bottle cars inside the large Indiana Harbor mill complex (formerly Inland Steel).

Nearly 30 years after E&LS bought five SD9s from bankrupt Minnesota iron ore mining firm Reserve Mining, the units still wear their brown and cream Reserve scheme. Now stored due to more powerful ... (more)

One of BNSF's "heritage fleet" of covered hoppers rests fittingly at a former Northern Pacific yard in Duluth. A number of hoppers are adorned with logos of BNSF predecessor railroads fo... (more)

Who needs a drone? While my kids were more interested in the glass bottom observation platform at Willis (Sears) Tower I found the passenger train activity more rewarding. Looking south at the lar... (more)

Who needs a drone? While my kids were more interested in the glass bottom observation platform at Willis (Sears) Tower I found the passenger train activity more rewarding. Looking north as a CTA t... (more)

Only at a railroad museum could you find a locomotive consist like this in 2015, or any year for that matter. Erie Mining 4211 and GN NW-5 192 sandwich a former Minnesota Power GE center cab while... (more)

Inside ArcelorMittal's sprawling former Inland Steel mill complex a SW1001 shoves a string of bottle cars filled with glowing molten steel.

A rare combination finds the last two DM&IR-painted/lettered units assigned together on the E-Lead Switch at Proctor on a rainy morning. This assignment is typically handled by SD38-2s 211, 212 an... (more)

MN&S 32 leads a short train west across the Mississippi River on a warm and humid summer day in 1984. This was a couple of years after Soo Line bought the shortline but it continued to operate muc... (more)