Thick fog greets the first run of the LS&M excursion train for the 2014 season. The remote control sign reflects BNSF switch jobs that also use this former Northern Pacific track. Number 46 is a 5... (more)

On a foggy and misty day the anchor off the USS Duluth (LPD-6) is moved from a flatcar onto its concrete display stand along Duluth's Lakewalk near the Vietnam Veteran's War Memorial. The USS Dulu... (more)

A solid set of three Bessemer units (909, 906, 903) pull empty ore cars off Dock 6 while the vessels Joe Block and Walter J. McCarthy Jr pass. The grass covered trestle on the right served the shu... (more)

A nice catch in 2014 is this trio of road units wearing the safety stripe scheme that was common in the late 1970s through the 1980s.

A pair of BNSF switchers head west to pull a tank car at Tate & Lyle in western Duluth.

Having crossed into Minnesota from Wisconsin via the double deck Oliver Bridge over the St. Louis river in the background, a lengthy CN freight with pusher help attached waits for a CN freight to ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 receives some attention from her crew during the lull between the day's run up to Duluth and the night photo special set to begin later that evening.

Schenectady graduates Milwaukee Road 261 (1944) and Soo Line 2719 (1923) shared the stage in a night photo session at the Lake Superior Railroad museum in Duluth.

Milwaukee Road 261 returned to operation last year following a thorough rebuild with a jaunt up to the North Shore Scenic Railroad in Duluth. Plenty of railfans were on hand to welcome back the bi... (more)

The crew of M345 climbs back aboard their train after inspecting Q198 at North Steelton. The power for the stack train can be seen in the distance entering Wisconsin on the double-deck Oliver Brid... (more)

The evening shift begins at Rice's Point.

I have been fortunate to be able to shoot a lot of Bessemer orange in MN lately. This winter however it was looking a little ragged... although to be fair the DM&IR generally didn't wash their uni... (more)

If its not Missabe Maroon... Bessemer Orange will do.

Funny how things work. Although they were never on the Bessemer together, the DM&IR #215 was formerly the B&LE #892 and was off property years before the B&LE #906, formerly SP #9348 arrived. 10 y... (more)

A lone SOO GP38-2 shoves a cut of cars into one of the elevators on Rice's Point in Duluth