A single Missabe unit MRF?! No, but the next best thing! The MRHS's SD-M glides through the woods on its way to Marbles to swap 8 hoppers for 50ish coal cars.

A single Missabe unit MRF?! No, but the next best thing! The MRHS's SD-M glides through the woods on its way to Marbles to swap 8 hoppers for 50ish coal cars.

On a beautiful Duluth morning, the MRHS's SD-M prepares to go to work on the North Shore Scenic Railroad as 7 hoppers are being swapped for 50ish coal cars at Marbles.

Missabe Railroad Historical Society SD-M 316 handles a short train of empty covered hoppers towards Two Harbors where they will be stored. This line is former DM&IR and connects Duluth and Two Har... (more)

A pair of bright orange switchers await another assignment at BNSF's Rice's Point Yard in Duluth, MN as thick fog rolls in off Lake Superior. Look Wisconsin is gone!

The afternoon job begins making their doubles that will make up a transfer for Superior.

Probably the coldest Ive ever been in May. The Soo Line pulls the largest freight car in North America, the Schnabel< out of Port Terminal and on towards Stinson Yard. It was snowing! Notice the B... (more)

The 4603 gets a quick break while the locomotive engineer changes ends.

The infamous SOO GP40s yard a drag from Superior. Perhaps someday one of them will find a permanent home at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

Some of the goodies used by the North Shore Scenic Railroad to move tourists along the shores of Lake Superior wait outside the Duluth Depot.

BNSF and Canadian Pacific yard jobs can be seen working in this shot. The CP job is being done by two Soo GP38-2 in the upper left side. Can you spot the windmill parts? They're on the left side o... (more)

0700 CP Duluth Job switches out Azcon Scrap in very havy fog.

Pea Soup fog blankets the harbors as the 0700 CP Duluth job appears out of nowhere like a ghost, and goes to retrieve the cars they left on the downhill grade.

"ANY SMELT IN THERE?" the engineer yelled as they went by. He was referring to the stream that moves under the reeds and such to the left, and oddly enough, a Budweiser guy had just left after che... (more)

The Proctor Road Switch crew shoves loads of taconite pellets out on the dock as a ship takes on the cargo. Across the bay, a BNSF coal train dumps their loads at the MERC facility. Business is ... (more)