A taconite pellet train is being unloaded on the famous Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad's Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. As the sun rises at 0700 hrs, the train catches enough light to provide this m... (more)

The Two Harbors turn heads for home reaching the outskirts of Duluth seen here meeting the Duluth Zephyr at Lakeside Siding, who will then line themselves out and follow us into town after the mee... (more)

A quartet of C40-8's have conquered Proctor Hill with a train of Difco's loaded with limestone for Minntac.

A quartet of ex-Chicago Northwestern C40-8's shove to Missabe Junction with limestone loads for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Interlake Steamship Co's "James R. Barker" sits backed onto Dock ... (more)

A front end loader is hard at work loading jennies with limestone at the Hallett Dock Company in Duluth, Minnesota. One the Hallett Dock switchers, SW1200RSm 1251, pulls the cut forward one car at... (more)

A pair of C40-8s bookended by IC SD40-3s lift Minntac limestone loads up Proctor Hill.

Yes, it was a cold one.

Union Pacific's "Big Boy" is dwarfed by the Joseph L. Block unloading Minorca-bound limestone at CN's Dock 6 in Duluth.

Hallett Dock locomotive 1251 is celebrating her 62nd birthday this year. Built in 1960 for Canadian Pacific, she now lives her life switching limestone cars for Canadian National's operation in Du... (more)

One rail, two sails. DMIR 404 dumps Minntac pellets on Dock 6, high above the Walter J. McCarthy which was loading nearly 60,000 tons of ore destined for Gary, IN while the CN owned Great Lakes Fl... (more)

The leaves are gone but the EMD's aren't -- for now. 13,000 horsepower sourced from three SD40-types and a solo C40-8 slug up Proctor Hill and around Bachelor's Curve with a load of Minntac limest... (more)

The theme of "Flares & F's" is on full display with this ore train recreation. Was told it was not uncommon to see F's & SD45's teamed up on these jobs back in Cuyuna Iron Range days.

Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)

Peak Fall color and a matched trio of BLE tunnel motors cannot be beat.

The infamous BLE trio of 906, 904, and 909 takes a set of empty limestone down Proctor Hill.