Orange over orange as a clean B&LE Tunnel Motor soars over a not-so-clean BNSF GE on a grain train.
Leaving Duluth and the urban area behind, the crew aboard SOO 2719 pour the coal on and open her up as they roll towards Two Harbors with a train load of passengers on a great summer afternoon.
DM&IR SD18 #193 leads a trainload of passengers back to the depot on North Shore Scenic Railroad trackage passing Duluth's famed waterfront and Canal Park with the Aerial lift bridge and the retir... (more)
A CP local crew switches cars around in their yard at Rices Point while two ships pass in the background.
Soo 2719 dressed up as DM&IR pacific 403 for a photo charter. The headlight is off of DM&IR 2-8-0 332 (D&NE 28 in the museum's collection).
Returning from an excursion trip up to Two Harbors, SOO 2719 makes it's way past some of Duluth's most iconic landmarks in the Aerial lift bridge and the retired ore boat, William A Irvin. These ... (more)
On National Train day DM&IR 193 with American Flags on it's cab enjoys the beautiful weather before helping switch out 261's train.
DM&IR 193 shuffles cars around to build the next day's passenger trains as 261 and 2719 sit side my side steaming it up on a beautiful but chilled May night.
GN "Hustle Muscle" shines after having been repainted by BN at their Grand Forks, ND facility. The first production SD45 (owned by the GN Historical Society) now resides at the Minnesota Transport... (more)
Three road units off a Minntac ore train have come to the rescue of a Proctor Roadswitch with two units that stalled on the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with ore empties.
A trio of GEs disturb a flock of seagulls as they lead a loaded grain shuttle from Duluth into Wisconsin.
Holcim's GE center cab positions loaded cement hoppers on the CP interchange track at Duluth's Port Terminal.
Holcim's GE center cab positions covered hoppers under the cement loading silo.
With a number of new GP20C-ECO units populating Minnesota it was nice to see a former Milwaukee Road and a pair of ex-Soo Line GP38-2s in Duluth.
