A very brief break in the clouds allows a shot of a BNSF switch crew grabbing a loaded gondola of scrap metal from the Azcon Scrap Yard along Duluth's busy waterfront on Rices Point.

While the Proctor Road Switch crew spot loaded ore cars above, the dock crew works on dumping and filling the James R. Barker with taconite pellets down below.

With the dormant and stripped former DM&IR ore dock No. 5 as a backdrop, a large front end loader fills side dump cars at Hallett Dock. The limestone is used in the production of taconite pellets ... (more)

One of the favorite activities during National Train Day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum was supervised hand car and motor car rides. Here a pair of young lads zip a former Missabe hand car p... (more)

This former DM&IR shop switcher was originally built for the C&O as their 5060 and then sold to the EJ&E as their 455 (upgraded to SW1200 specs). The switcher was transferred from the J to the Mis... (more)

Nice surprise to see at work! BNSF was kind enough to send a modern unit for display during National Train Day.

I bet you've never seen a consist like this! This wasn't some posed, staged, fake shot either! The SD70ACe was visiting for National Train Day and the FP7 #2500 was departing for Spencer, NC for ... (more)

Soo Line GP30 #700 rolls over a trestle across a creek between Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

Soo Line 700 crosses the Sucker River before it empties into Lake Superior between Duluth and Two Harbors. This ex-Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway bridge was also in the 1994 movie Iron Wil... (more)

A pair of leased geeps handle a short Union Pacific transfer past CN's West Duluth ore docks on a blustery spring day.

As the clouds and cold wind move in off Lake Superior on a late November afternoon, the two man crew working at Holcim Cement wrap up the days duties of unloading a ship and then loading and stag... (more)

A trio of BNSF units lift an empty 133-car ore train up CN's Proctor Hill. This was a rare occurrence to have a BNSF train on famed Proctor Hill. The train was headed for U.S. Steel's Minntac plan... (more)

A rare move of a BNSF ore train down CN's Proctor Hill. A washout on BNSF coupled with the need for ore at U.S. Steel mills in Alabama and Illinois resulted in this unusual move. CN operated the t... (more)

An empty limestone train eases down the ramp to Missabe Junction while a Proctor Roadswitch crew positions an ore train for dumping.

The old girl lives! DMIR 403 has been through a lot this year already. Involved in a wreck at Fairbanks earlier this year and at the time it's fate was unknown. CN brass decided to repair it and... (more)