Light power for Rices Point rolls under Highway 2 in Duluth on a pleasant spring day.

Soo 4426 waits in the clear with a sister while a pair of GP40s exit the Whitebox Elevator complex after delivering a cut of cars. Downtwon Duluth is in the distance.

The classic pair of Soo Line GP40s continue in transfer service around the Twin Ports.

The train crew goes about their business of spotting 113 grain loads at the Whitebox elevator while the General Mills elevator A and the city of Duluth provide a nice backround. Note one of Duluth... (more)

End of the line, but not quite for this veteran Soo Line GP40, a 1967 product of EMD.

There is a quite a bit of exceitement over CP reactivating some remaining Soo Line SD60s, but the real excitement should be over this pair of classic Soo Line GP40s (4603/4601) paired together in ... (more)

The Easter Bunny was kind to me today as the only two remaining ex-Soo GP40s still in classic Soo Line paint were paired together on a transfer to Duluth. Considering they were built in 1967 and s... (more)

It's all relative.

The first and only time this private car has ever ever run on the NSSR. It was in town as part of the NRHS Special. The neat thing is that it is called the Kitchi Gammi, the Ojibwe name for Lake S... (more)

Sadly, this is one of the better consists the Missabe can offer nowadays. Every scheme on the Missabe is represented, minus the best looking, Missabe maroon and EJE orange.

Young engineer has a hard pull still ahead of him, as the 71 car transfer heads through industrial Duluth. Geeps are really leaning into the curve as the train winds out of the BNSF Yard. Besides ... (more)

What a GP40 might look like with a crane attatched to the top of the cab.

The nine-to-fivers have gone home for the day while the railroad toils endlessly to meet the needs of their customers.

The afternoon job pulls cement loads off of the interchange track. The cars are loaded at the elevator in the background which is owned by Holcim. The elevator uses a corkscrew to get the cement o... (more)

The CP 4511 leads the 4617 with a short train from Superior. The 4511 was painted by Relco at Albia, IA. They sure do good work!