One of a handful of American locomotive cranes that populate the large Azcon scrap yard in Duluth shuffles a gondola around for loading.

A pair of CP geeps switch cars while the 1000-footer American Century is getting ready for the start of the shipping season on March 25.

Pulling hard up Steelton Hill with 2 helpers on the rear. 5 inch fresh blanket of heavy sticky snow from the previous night.

Descending Steelton Hill under a fresh blanket of snow.

As the Proctor Roadswitch prepares to head back to its namesake with empties the Dock Switch has coupled onto loads and will shove them to the ore dock for dumping.

BNSF B&B employees inspect this new bridge as the first train to use it crosses over. This is how the previous culvert looked after being washed out in June 2012 as viewed from the other side: htt... (more)

DMIR 185, an SD18, along with DMIR 143, a phase 3 SD9, and DMIR 169, a phase 4 SD9, bask in the morning sunlight along the shore of Lake Superior at Endion Yard, a small merchandise yard east of d... (more)

In a fairly unusual move the Proctor Road Switch is crossing over with empties when they normally would be pulling off of the track they are entering. CN is keeping a switch engine around the dock... (more)

A lone ex-Frisco MP15 leaves its sister (3702) behind with a geep as it heads to Superior for servicing. This former NP yard was a very busy place during Duluth's heavy industrial years but today ... (more)

A pair of BN switchers return an excursion train to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum after a weekend of trips in far western Duluth.

100-car unit train of crude oil from Canada rolls across the double-deck Oliver Bridge as an ice fisherman walks to clean out his holes on the far right.

100-car unit train of crude oil from Canada eases down Steelton Hill. These trains are uncommon through the Twin Ports but might become more regular.

A pair of light units roll back to Pokegama Yard after assisting M-347 up Steelton Hill in far western Duluth. A beautiful winter day to spend some time ice fishing on the St. Louis River. The six... (more)

A DMIR Hill job was climbing Proctor Hill passing above I-35 with a mixed train of limestone and general freight with a couple of spanking clean units leading that were used on a passenger special... (more)

A former Algoma Central unit leads an empty all-rail ore train into Steelton Yard as a DW&P train with a Peg SD40 leading holds on the mainline.