Things are not what they seem. Former Rock Island GP38-2 now in GT colors has been assigned to the DWP to replace aging Alco RS11s in Duluth. By 1984 they would be re-lettered DWP, and by 1985, th... (more)

Canadian Pacific job HS12 switches the Duluth port terminal while the Clyde S VanEnkevort and Edwin H Gott await the start of the 2018 shipping season.

A quartet of DWP RS11s are joined by a Milwaukee Road SD40-2 on a rainy day at their West Duluth yard in October 1982. In 2 years the yard would be vacated and moved to Pokegama, WI south of Super... (more)

CN 2834 leads a combined sand and oil train up Steelton hill on Duluth's southwest side over former Missabe trackage. At this point one can see the old Missabe route behind the train. The bridge o... (more)

The North Shore Scenic Railroad is northbound over the Little Sucker River trestle on their fall color train run to Two Harbors with a former Missabe veteran leading the way.

ATSF 57, a full RPO car sits forlornly on a spur in Duluth MN weathering yet another winter. Quick research showed that this car had been at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay as recently a... (more)

CN 2571 and two other GEs serve as helpers on Steelton hill near Duluth, MN, helping a westbound (northbound) sand/oil train up the grade. They will drop off once the train tops the grade and the ... (more)

Heading north to Two Harbors

Great Northern NW5 No. 192 pauses during switching at Duluth, Minnesota, at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum on June 10, 2016. Only 13 rare EMD NW5s were built between December 1946 and February ... (more)

DNE 28 lets off a little steam (and smoke) at Duluth Union Depot as it prepares to take the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Society on a tour to Two Harbors, MN and back.

DMIR 213 crests Proctor Hill with a string of empties in October of 1993. This scene has changed in recent years as the line is now single track and a motel/gas station dominate the wooded area to... (more)

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range SD18 switches Dock 6 late in the afternoon of October 20, 1985, framed by Dock 5 and a boarded up Jenswold Street Tower at Duluth, Minnesota. Thanks to Dave Schauer ... (more)

Later Central Vermont repainted DW&P Alco RS-11 3601 loaner/lease unit in their Forest Green and Yellow scheme during post 1977 period.

The ferry Incan Superior enters Duluth, MN, bound for its dock in Superior, WI in September of 1983. One of the more unusual and unremarked ferries on the Great Lakes, the ferry carried mostly pap... (more)

DMIR 409 and a pair of Illinois Central SD40-2s grind up Proctor Hill with ore empties en route from the Duluth dock to Proctor Yard. In this view, Superior, WI and its refineries can be seen in t... (more)