Three SD60 types ease a loaded limestone train out of Missabe Junction in Duluth. This train is headed for U.S. Steel's large Minntac ore processing plant where the lime rock will be added to taco... (more)

Christmas City Express pauses by the nicely lit trees adjacent to Bentleyville.

The DW&P ran a holiday special for employees from 1977 through 1982 using equipment from the LSRM and Missabe. Here the train has arrived from Virginia and a pair of RS11s will hook onto the rear ... (more)

NSSR 9169, reportedly the oldest operating RDC in the United States, is all decorated for the Christmas City Express. This former C&NW RDC shuttles passengers on a short run from the Fitgers Br... (more)

Unfortunately there hasn't been much snow after a big initial storm, so this shot looks like it could have been late fall. This is indeed December, but the #2500 and cars brighten the landscape.

Most of the passengers that have bought their tickets are on board already at the Fitgers Complex for a short trip to the incredible Christmas Light Displays of Bentleyville at Duluth's Bayfront P... (more)

The NSSR's Christmas City Express arrives in downtown Duluth after a short trip from Fitgers. The RDC is a former C&NW version and is one of the first delivered.

New 2901 passes recent earth work and new track being installed as part of CN's plan to double track this line in western Duluth.

The North Shore Scenic Railroad's Christmas City Express pauses at Duluth Union Depot at sunset on a crisp last day of November.

Where Rail Meets Sail! Erie #4211 is no stranger to the shipping industry, having hauled hundreds of thousands of tons of ore to the dock at Taconite Harbor over the years. Now retired, she sits b... (more)

A CP transfer rolls underneath the approach to CN's former DM&IR ore dock No. 6 in Duluth. Loading at the dock is the 1000-footer American Spirit, which spends most of its time in the ore trade as... (more)

A really neat set of 1966-built GP40s work a Canadian Pacific transfer in snowy Duluth. Leading is Soo Line 2010, a former Milwaukee Road GP40 that amazingly still wears the colors of its first ow... (more)

One of Hallett Dock's switchers spots cars of taconite pellet chips/fines at the firm's unloading shed. This ore is from Keewatin Taconite and will be shipped from Hallett Dock by lake vessel to b... (more)

A helper set glides across Highway 23 in western Duluth prior to bridge crews placing a new span across the road. This work was done in the dead of night with the road being closed for 30-minute i... (more)

A helper set glides down Steelton Hill in western Duluth and passes by new bridge construction for double track. The track and narrow bridge the units are on will be replaced by two new bridges, t... (more)