A grain shuttle rolls past Missabe Junction where a CN limestone train is waiting to head up Proctor Hill and in the distance a Proctor Roadswitch positions cars for dumping at Dock 6.
Tourists in town for the long holiday weekend pause to watch and photograph 2719 as it rolls along Duluth's popular Lakewalk.
This is the last summer for 2719 before it needs a major inspection/shopping.
A young boy catches a glimpse of Soo Line caboose No. 1 as is disappears in a haze of coal smoke produced by 2719 as it rolled through downtown Duluth.
Steam faces for both the young and old were on hand at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.
With the morning coffee break over, the two man crew hops on this former DM&IR SW 1200 and starts again working for Hallett Dock Co. at Duluth, MN. The switcher, retired by CN in 2006 and acquire... (more)
Hallett 12, an EMD SW2, picks up a cut of ore cars just delivered from CN for interchange at Boston Yard. The cars will be spotted at Hallett Dock Co. for the loading of limestone then brought ba... (more)
Soo 2719 arrives back into Duluth after a successful run to Two Harbors.
Soo 2719 backs its train into Duluth Union Depot after a successful run to Two Harbors and back. Given drought conditions in the Duluth area a hi-rail fire patrol followed the train and has stoppe... (more)
Let's see, if I just use my back and lift here...
Where sail meets rail. A pair of BNSF geeps make up the transfer to Superior while two MP15s ease down the west side of the yard after switching a foundry. The 1000-footer Walter J. McCarthy Jr. i... (more)
Headed to Two Harbors.
The LS&M's center cab GE seemingly floats above Mud Lake as it makes it was over a causeway near New Duluth.
In the past these have had GTW reporting marks but this one was lacking any type of identifying mark.
The crew that operated Soo Line 2719 pose for a portrait at the end of the day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN.