A pair of CN SD40-2W's and an IC SD40-3 wait for a crew to head north.

A nice lash-up of EMD's heads downgrade through Duluth.

Two DMIR SD9s and an SD18 prepare to back down to the Duluth ore docks to pick up an empty train for the trip back to Proctor. They had just brought a loaded train down the hill and will soon head... (more)

As the blue hour gives way to night, a short 10 car transfer prepares to pull from the BNSF Rices Point yard in Duluth, MN and head over to the BNSF 28th Street yard in Superior, WI. The power fo... (more)

Renumbered GN 3702, this former Frisco switcher leads a short transfer past CN's ore dock in Duluth.

Not a great place to suffer a derailment. A light power set running around its ore train on the approach to Dock 6 had the lead truck of 6252 derail at a crossover, fortunately at slow speed. This... (more)

A trio of former C&NW GEs (2104, 2112, 2119) ease a train of loaded hoppers down Proctor Hill.

The summer yellows are out in full bloom as the Duluth Transfer runs light engine past CN's Duluth ore dock as the M/V Indiana Harbor backs up to the shiploader.

With United Taconite temporally shut down the C40-8s normally used on raw ore trains to that plant have been seen on other assignments, including here in Duluth at the ore dock.

Grading and realignment work for CN's double track project on Steelton Hill in far western Duluth is going full speed this summer. Here a short northbound transfer passes by heavy earth moving equ... (more)

One of BNSF's "heritage fleet" of covered hoppers rests fittingly at a former Northern Pacific yard in Duluth. A number of hoppers are adorned with logos of BNSF predecessor railroads fo... (more)

Only at a railroad museum could you find a locomotive consist like this in 2015, or any year for that matter. Erie Mining 4211 and GN NW-5 192 sandwich a former Minnesota Power GE center cab while... (more)

DMIR 210, 410 and 212 rolls a morning ore transfer down Proctor Hill from Proctor Yard to the Duluth ore docks. The train is about to pass under a frontage road and I35 as it passes a lot full of ... (more)

A squall has passed and the evening shift has yet to start at Rice's Point.

Orange meets orange with a family connection as GN 192 guides a North Shore Scenic Railroad passenger train into the siding while a special Operation Lifesaver train holds the mainline. The OLS tr... (more)