A nice pair of BNSF geeps (GP40-2 3004 is the other) shove cars into the recycled paper section of the Duluth Mill on a beautiful summer evening.

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor while a thunderstorm develops over Wisconsin.

A Proctor Roadswitch crew has run around their train and will couple up and shove the loads out to the ore dock for dumping.

A former Soo Line GP38-2 and a new ECO lead a transfer to Superior with the grain elevators of Duluth dominating the landscape.

Ore loads work upgrade at Wales.

Light engine MRF departs Two Harbors.

An empty ore train heads upgrade out of Two Harbors.

The BN local from Superior arrives in Ashland on a rainy fall day. Too bad the Ashland Ore Dockers class of 1980 decided to re-letter the bridge and the classic NP Monad at the start of their seni... (more)

An eastbound CP freight with three SD40-2s rolls along the rugged north shore of Lake Superior.

Warm early evening light illuminates a CP transfer as it rolls along BNSF tracks to Superior while a CN limestone train awaits departure on former DM&IR rails.

A loaded ore train with cars equipped with traditional friction bearing trucks and steel brake shoes creates a smoke cloud as it nears the base of the 2.2% grade of Proctor Hill near the Duluth or... (more)

Based on more recent shots of this area CN has really cleaned up the property. This must have been the area they put stuff when told "just throw it out back."

Bessemer 904 shoves empty ore cars to the outgoing yard while an ore boat loads at Dock 2. CN owns the ship as well as the train and dock facility.

Light rain heightens the color of this FM and the Alco RSD-4 on the adjacent track at the Northwest Railroad Museum operation.

Having been delivered earlier in the year this pair of freshly rebuilt tunnel motors lift ore empties up the southbound main out of Two Harbors. The track the train is on has a 2.9% grade as it di... (more)