A CN crew spots ore cars at ore dock number 6 while a BNSF switch job rolls past underneath. Two vessels from Canadian company Lower Lakes Towing are loading at the dock (Manitoulin and Michipicot... (more)

By 1984 DWP had finally been relieved of its first diesel fleet, a group of RS-11s bought new to replace steam in the 1950s. The CN/GTW subsidiary was re-equpped with a small fleet of GP38-2s and ... (more)

MILW SD40-2 no. 200 is parked at the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific yard on Duluth's west end on a rainy October afternoon in 1982. The unit is in run through service with CN and CN subsidiary is tryi... (more)

A trio of former Oakway SD60s lug Difco side dumps, loaded with limestone bound for the taconite processing plants on Minnesota's Iron Range, up Proctor Hill from the Hallett dock on Duluth's harb... (more)

A trio of tunnel motors lift empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill from CN's Dock 6 in Duluth in a heavy lake effect snow storm.

A pair of Bessemer tunnel motors sandwich a widecab SD40-2 as they shove limestone loads through the hole track, under CN's Duluth ore docks, before they make the climb up Proctor Hill.

Now stopped under abandoned DMIR dock 5, CP 2224 pulled a long string of grain empties from an elevator on Rices Point for the BNSF to pick up all while under CN dock 6 in Duluth, MN.

Burlington Northern F9A 794 leading a train through Rices Point Yard as a DWP transfer waits in the clear at Duluth October 1976. This train likely originated at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth and... (more)

Tourist line Lake Superior & Mississippi loads passengers in Duluth's west end for an excursion down Northern Pacific's original trackage. The old GE is listed as a 50 tonner, once owned by Flambe... (more)

Burlington Northern RS1 953 lugging coal loads for the power plant in West Duluth October 1970. Built as Northern Pacific 158 in August 1945 and renumber NP 803 in 1956. Retired in May 1972 and so... (more)

Burlington Northern S4 919 switching in Duluth MN April 1971. BN 919 was built as NP 719 in May 1953 and retired in May 1973. There are a couple hallmarks of the NP on display with this unit inclu... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP20M 982 at Rices Point Yard in Duluth MN April 1971. This unit was built as MILW GP9 2400 in January 1954 and rebuilt into this "GP20" in February 1970. It was eventuall... (more)

Northern Pacific S4 722 switching Rices Point Yard in Duluth June 1970. The 722 was built in December 1953 and retired in August 1972. These Alco S-Series switchers were the backbone of the NP in ... (more)

A CP crew switches the container facility at the Port of Duluth. Three tugs from Great Lakes Towing complement the red of the locomotive.

Two CN trains in action at Duluth as one crew dumps ore cars at Dock 6 while another lifts limestone to Proctor.