A recently washed 2104 looks sharp in front of the laker Hon. James L Oberstar of the Interlake Steamship fleet. The Oberstar was repainted over the winter and looks equally nice. The vessel was l... (more)

The Proctor Transfer heads up Steelton Hill, displaying the changes in GE's Tier 3 & 4 radiators.

Duluth Harbor remains frozen on this early March morning as a train of taconite pellets is unloaded from the docks and into stockpiles. In a few short weeks, shipping on the Great Lakes will resum... (more)

A trio of classic EMD's are doing every bit of track speed on the CN Missabe Sub in Zim, Minnesota as they haul a heavy train of taconite pellets towards Duluth.

The first ship of the season, the James R. Barker, backs toward CN ore dock No. 6 while a crew pulls empties off the dock and a BNSF coal train unloads across the bay at Midwest Energy.

A busy afternoon at Proctor yard near Duluth. In the upper left in front of the yard office is the power off a pellet load that just arrived and is heading to the house for servicing. In the upper... (more)

CN dock crews load blast furnace trim (crushed iron bearing taconite rock) into the hold of the laker Arthur M. Anderson. The taconite was mined at U.S. Steel's Minntac plant. The use of gravity t... (more)

A trio of C40-8s pick up empty ore cars off Dock 6 while the laker Roger Blough departs with a load of ore for Conneaut. This was the first trip for the Blough in over two months after a serious g... (more)

Some action at CN's ore dock 6 in Duluth as three light units are on the ore dock approach while three GEs led by 2104 cross over on BNSF track with ore cars for loading limestone at Hallett Dock.... (more)

Just north of Duluth at Munger is where CN's former DW&P (Rainy Sub) crosses over their ex-DM&IR track (Missabe Sub). For years I have tried to capture an engine-over-engine shot here but given th... (more)

A switch crew uses a four-unit road set to position empty ore cars into the outgoing yard at Two Harbors while the CN-owned 1000-footer Edgar B. Speer takes on a load of Minntac pellets.

The Duluth ore docks are over 100 years old, but still are put to good use by CN with the daily loading and unloading of trains and boats. Here a 120 car ore train doubles over as the crew get in ... (more)

CN 6255 and two other SD40-3s push taconite loaded ore cars out on the dock so that the James R. Barker can start being loaded.

T-Birds have always been relatively easy to catch with them making a 10 mile run about every two hours. Running back and forth mine to plant, plant to mine, day and night, night and day. Here are ... (more)

A nice sampling of EMD power at the former DM&IR engine facility located northwest of Duluth.