ATSF 57, a full RPO car sits forlornly on a spur in Duluth MN weathering yet another winter. Quick research showed that this car had been at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay as recently a... (more)

CN 2571 and two other GEs serve as helpers on Steelton hill near Duluth, MN, helping a westbound (northbound) sand/oil train up the grade. They will drop off once the train tops the grade and the ... (more)

Heading north to Two Harbors

Great Northern NW5 No. 192 pauses during switching at Duluth, Minnesota, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on June 10, 2016. Only 13 rare EMD NW5s were built between December 1946 and February ... (more)

DNE 28 lets off a little steam (and smoke) at Duluth Union Depot as it prepares to take the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Society on a tour to Two Harbors, MN and back.

DMIR 213 crests Proctor Hill with a string of empties in October of 1993. This scene has changed in recent years as the line is now single track and a motel/gas station dominate the wooded area to... (more)

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range SD18 switches Dock 6 late in the afternoon of October 20, 1985, framed by Dock 5 and a boarded up Jenswold Street Tower at Duluth, Minnesota. Thanks to Dave Schauer ... (more)

Later Central Vermont repainted DW&P Alco RS-11 3601 loaner/lease unit in their Forest Green and Yellow scheme during post 1977 period.

The ferry Incan Superior enters Duluth, MN, bound for its dock in Superior, WI in September of 1983. One of the more unusual and unremarked ferries on the Great Lakes, the ferry carried mostly pap... (more)

DMIR 409 and a pair of Illinois Central SD40-2s grind up Proctor Hill with ore empties en route from the Duluth dock to Proctor Yard. In this view, Superior, WI and its refineries can be seen in t... (more)

A CN empty ore transfer prepares to tackle Proctor Hill at Collinwood in Duluth's west end. The rebuilt SD45T-2 was acquired by DMIR second hand and retains DMIR lettering and former number. Durin... (more)

North Shore Scenic Railroad's tourist excursion was being led by former DMIR SD18 no. 193 as the train left Duluth below Fitger's Brewery along the shore of Lake Superior.

After departing Proctor and coming down Proctor Hill into Duluth with a train of taconite pellets from United Taconite, the Proctor Road Switch crew has run around the train and prepares to shove ... (more)

DNE 28 leads a fall excursion train out of Duluth on the North Shore Scenic Railway. This is the color version of a previously posted duotone image.

A former Alaska Railroad RDC2 brings up the rear of a North Shore Scenic Railway excursion train as it leaves downtown Duluth for a trip along the shore of Lake Superior.