An empty tailings train heads back to the ore processing plant at Silver Bay with an essence of fall color on the trees.

This former Santa Fe SD45-2 has been rebuilt to SD40-2 specifications and is used around Duluth-Superior on local jobs. Here it is being borrowed by a yard crew to handle empty grain cars from the... (more)

MRL called this an "unmanned" helper leading H-KCKSPO out of the west portal on Bozeman Pass. The road crew picked up this set at Livingston and cut it off here at West End for the "... (more)

CN's "class unit" for their former UP C40-8s grinds up Steelton Hill during a steady rain. CN 2000 is former C&NW 8501.

A special passenger train operated from Minneapolis to Duluth heads across St. Louis Bay and into Duluth behind Milwaukee Road 261. The former Northern Pacific swing bridge the train is crossing w... (more)

A special passenger train operated from Minneapolis to Duluth and return heads across St. Louis Bay and into Wisconsin where it will couple up with Milwaukee Road 261 for the trip to the Twin Citi... (more)

One of the more eclectic consists to grace Duluth was this set including a pair of B40-8s (598 and 588) sandwiching a CP GE.

A pair of new ES44ACs head into the warm afternoon sun with a long 148-car A439. The trees are starting to show some decent color in northern Minnesota.

A pair of locomotives fresh from GE lead a southbound manifest train through western Duluth.

The journey continues (in French and English). The anniversary of privatization logo applied to a handful of locomotives in 2010 is still in decent shape on 2107 as it toils away on ore trains in ... (more)

A lone MRL unit (former CNW SD40 877) eases a work train down Bozeman Pass. The old tunnel portal can be seen on the right, replaced by the Northern Pacific in 1945.

On an otherwise cloudy day a fortuitous shaft of sunlight illuminates a pair of SD60Fs as they shove into Keenan Yard on the former DM&IR.

Despite the gloomy day a couple of unusual visitors to CP's Stinson Yard provide for an interesting image. A pair of BNSF GEs are working on the CP and brought up a train from St. Paul while DM&IR... (more)

Cloquet Terminal's 2608 makes a rare daylight appearance outside the shop while SW1000 35 idles nearby.

Venerable SW-1 number 33 undergoes work to its draft gear in the Cloquet Terminal's shop. I like the new Radio Flyer wagon used by the machinist to haul tools and parts around.