RS-11s 3600 and 3609 finish switching a westbound freight at the DWP yard on the hillside in the west end of Duluth. Missabe's Proctor hill main is above this yard on the hillside. The white flag... (more)
CNW 4406 and 4401, GP15-1s, pair up on a transfer to/from the DWP connection in downtown Duluth on a beautiful summer day in 1977. By the mid-80s everything would change and this area would be par... (more)
All is quiet now, as a few passerby take notice of a hulking train passing them. In December however, the tracks the train is directly on, from the pole with the sign all the way back to the end o... (more)
Onto the BNSF track now,past Rices Point Yard, the coal empty is headed for the former DM&IR ore docks, where they will cut off and leave the train. The track they are pulling down on is the West... (more)
DM&IR #193 and EMC #4211 both spent their lives hauling ore, so 121 empty coal cars are a piece of cake. Here they wind through the Canal Park area of Duluth, almost to the BNSF's Rices Point Yard... (more)