On a clear day atop Skyline drive, you can see for miles and miles and miles and miles. Oh yea, and the Rice's Point switchers working the evening shift.
The warm air and cold waters of Lake Superior meet and provide a thick blanket of fog to cover the two GP38-2's sitting at the CP Rice Point yard while they wait for a crew and job.
This was the north portal of the 520 foot tunnel the DW&P railroad constructed at M.P. 7.4 through Ely's Peak in far west Duluth as part of their Hill Line which took them into and out of downtow... (more)