A loaded all-rail ore train eases down Steelton Hill in western Duluth as northern lights put on a show above.

A chilly -10F morning finds the light of a lantern briefly illuminating the nose of 409 as a waning crescent moon rises in the sky above.

DM&IR 215 and 211 switch the yard at Proctor before sunrise with an air temperature of -20F.

A special high-wide load moving a generator from the port of Duluth to western Canada via Sweetgrass, Montana. KWUX 200 is the large Schnabel-type car.

Three ex-C&NW GEs pull a loaded ore train past Highland Lake en route to the docks at Two Harbors.

A trio of CP rebuilds roll a transfer past the retired ore/cement carrier J.B. Ford that is in the process of being scrapped.

A special high-wide move on Northshore Mining involving the transfer of a large dump truck from the mine at Babbitt to the tailings disposal site at Milepost 7. One of NSM's three former GCFX/WC/C... (more)

A double rainbow adds color above a rear distributed power unit on a loaded ore train at Allouez yard in Superior.

GN 400 "Hustle Muscle" - owned by the GNRHS - and NP 3617 pose side-by-side at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Hustle Muscle is serviceable and 3617 is nearing operational s... (more)

After rebuilding at Albia, Iowa, CP F9B 1900 was put on train 493 for a shakedown run from St. Paul to Superior, Wisconsin. A rare visit for one of CP's Fs in the Twin Ports.

An empty tailings train rolls through a frosted forest setting as it heads back to Silver Bay from Babbitt.

A road set on an empty ore train is fueled at CN's Proctor yard prior to departing for United Taconite's Fairlane iron ore plant on a crisp -9F morning.

Former CB&Q streamlined passenger train known as the Mark Twain Zephyr rests at its new home in northwestern Wisconsin on the Wisconsin Great Northern. Restoration work is well underway and the po... (more)

A trio of helper (shover) units roll past CN train 8890 at control point Gary on Steelton Hill in far western Duluth. Fall color was good this year in northeastern Minnesota.

CN has positioned a number of air repeater cars at their former DM&IR Proctor yard as cold weather nears. The side-dump cars are also used seasonally in the winter to move limestone from Duluth to... (more)