Two BNSF jobs with geep/switcher combinations work Duluth in the early evening. MP15 3702 is on the close set while SW1500 3429 is on the far set. GP39M 2825 began life as GN GP30 3003 in 1963 and... (more)

A young lass cleans the windshield of this F40PH at Jasper in an era before wearing PPE was common. She is certainly no aged CN machinist...

A rare 1913 GE gas-electric (later converted to straight electric and then diesel electric) owned by the Minnesota Transportation Museum was used to haul tourists on Duluth's Lake Superior & Missi... (more)

A special Arrowhead Civic Club passenger extra operated by BN from Duluth to Iron River, Wisconsin for underprivileged children arrives at the depot. The kids would enjoy a day of swimming at near... (more)

A loaded limestone train has just crested the 2.2 percent grade of Proctor Hill behind a trio of ex-C&NW C40-8 GEs.

The ground remains damp from a thunderstorm that had just passed over Proctor yard as a limestone train prepares to depart for Minntac.

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 arriving in Duluth. The positive side is that the weather enhanced the steam... (more)

A steady rain and cool 50-degree temperature made for a damp walk on the Highway 2 bridge to capture Milwaukee Road 261 crossing BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point Draw linking Duluth and Superior. The pos... (more)

Riding High. Lake Superior Railroad Museum's Mack industrial switcher positions a shop truck under Soo 700 during a wheel/motor swap on 700's original truck.

Contract construction crews are finishing the final concrete base pour on the main span over the Pecos River as the hot ZLACNYC9-13L with 3.9 horsepower per ton races eastbound with 5,600 tons and... (more)

Nearly 100 years of locomotive evolution is on display in Duluth as Northern's Pacific's first locomotive the Minnetonka (Smith & Porter 1870) poses next to one of NP's last locomotives SD45 3617 ... (more)

A track renewal project at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum has opened up a temporary unobstructed view of the fireman's side of 4-4-0 William Crooks, the first locomotive in Minnesota. The locom... (more)

A nice clean merger consist rolls east off Marias Pass in October 2000. A thin layer of ice covers the pond as cold weather comes early to upper elevations.

A beautiful evening finds a CP transfer rolling past CN's former DM&IR ore dock in West Duluth as the laker Arthur M. Anderson eases up to the shiploader for a cargo of taconite pellets.

Taking advantage of a heavy-lift crane used the day prior to unload Lincoln's funeral car, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum used the same crane plus another to change out a wheel/motor assembly f... (more)