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Dock 6 rail and sail, night edition.
R922 dumps Minntac pellets on the east while the John G. Munson loads.
The Herbert C. Jackson, a 690ft long coal boat capable of 24,800 tons of coal, leaving the Duluth, Minnesota USA harbor heading out to Lake Superior.
Canal Park - MN
I'm still searching old files for a photo project and find buried treasures.
A very calm morning near the canal park area watching the sun trying to peek through the low clouds.
It's this time of day I find appealing with the whole world to myself even for a brief moment!
Copyright 2021
CN/IC No. 6264 leads a two roster mates lead the R926 noon switch through the fall colors at Bachelors Curve.
DMIR 404 and company dump Minntac pellets high above on dock 6 whilst the Walter J. McCarthy loads pellets destined for Gary, IN.
Great Lakes Fleet Philip R. Clarke can be seen in the background working towards Hallett dock 5 with a load of limestone from Calcite, MI.
CN R921 backs an empty Minorca limestone train into the Hallett Dock as the James R. Barker loads at Dock #6 on the right. Lead engine #909 was one of four B&LE tunnel motors rebuilt at the Proctor shops; the remainder were rebuilt by MPI in Boise, Idaho.
Rail and sail, pt 2.
CN's Proctor based R921 labors up the 2% grade of Proctor Hill with a Missabe vet leading the charge, while the Great Lakes legendary laker Arthur M. Anderson barrels down on Duluth with a load of limestone.
Got to love the angle here on the edge of the Lincoln Park neighborhood. Some of Duluth's icons are visible in the view here including three DMIR SD40-3s in CN paint, DMIR ore jennies, St. Louis Bay, Blatnik Bridge, and Lake Superior. This is such a great angle for so many reasons. Here the crew of the afternoon dock job bring a short train of jennies to the start of the climb up Proctor Hill after dumping taconite.
An ex-C&NW C40-8 leads taconite loads through the S-curve at 40th Avenue descending the hill towards the dock.
The Missabe Miracle 3.0 returns to Proctor light power (but you wouldn't know it), making easy work of the 2.0% grade on Proctor Hill. It was a gorgeous day in the Twin Ports!
The beautiful classic Laker Arthur M Anderson is leaving Duluth on a beautiful Summer evening. 6/30/2023
A long exposure of the north pier lighthouse in Duluth, Minnesota, creates an eiree feel as shades walk along the pier.
D&NE SW1000 switches cars in Cloquet during January 1999. Today all of the "Duluth" railroads are gone - D&NE is now Cloquet Terminal while DM&IR and DW&P are folded into CN.
The James R. Barker arrives under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge while belching a wild amount of smoke. The ship also put on a ridiculously long horn show - talk bout an entertaining entrance.
I spent a long frozen weekend exploring Duluth Minnesota - this is the view under the John A. Blatnik Bridge looking out over Lake Superior's Saint Louis Bay to Wisconsin. It's been amazingly cold for November - the temp that night was 6°F degrees with a -20°F below windchill - the strong wind coming off the big icy lake made our eyelids stick together when we blinked :O
BNSF 2912 and 2571 run along Railroad Street in Duluth on their return to Rice's Point Yard on March 19, 2022. The Geeps are returning with a pair of salt cars from Compass Minerals, which is the last customer this close to downtown Duluth in an area that at one time was filled with tracks.
My earliest Duluth memory is from the 1980s when we took Amtrak's North Star up from the Twin CIties and stayed at the Radisson. I remember being fascinated with the variety of engines and cars that could be seen at Bridge Yard from our room and from their revolving restaurant.
Two Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific RS11s bring a transfer from the Bridge Yard in Duluth back to the DW&P yard crossing the mammoth trestle in West Duluth on May 7, 1981.
The 1:00pm Duluth Zephyr travels along the Lake Superior shore with Soo Line 700 for power. A new downtown look is present with the expansion and updates to Essentia Health's Duluth facilities.
Matched Soo Line GP38-2s 4413 and 4402 lift a pair of empty centerbeam lumber flats from the port terminal in Duluth. Warm evening light courtesy Canadian wild fires.
a huge ship travelling along the Duluth Ship Canal and passing beneath the iconic Aerial Lift Bridge.
BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN. Seeing an orange BLE leader and getting sun at the s-curve in Culver was the last two things we didn't check off our list until the last day of shooting. Merry Christmas!
After checking out the NSM and the harbor in Two Harbors, we took in the view from Skyline Drive in Duluth. A CN taconite train has arrived at the ore dock and the power is seen running around their train as a BNSF coal train unloads across the way in Superior, WI.
I've been dreaming of getting back to Duluth so here's a look back just over a year and another frame of this simple little workaday scene down in harbor.
CPKC's Duluth based job JS12 with a lone GP20C-ECO is seen spotting boxcars at the Valley Worldwide Logistics warehouse in the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Complex across Helberg Drive from the small former Soo Line yard that CPKC retains on Rices Point that this job and at least one other are based out of.
Historically the Northern Pacific was the dominant railroad in Duluth and they had massive facilities here, though multiple competing Class 1s also served the city which even today is reached by four of the remaining six mega systems. In addition to Soo and NP, the Omaha Road (CNW), and Great Northern maintained smaller yards here on Rices Point which had connections to Superior via the NP's Minnesota and Wisconsin drawbridges as well as the dual rail/road Interstate Bridge.
Rices Point was once laced with a truly astonishing amount of rail infrastructure and though greatly diminished you can still find CPKC and BNSF jobs working the area daily and can catch the UP making a trip over from Superior twice a week.
For a sweeping overview here's a shot of mine of this same job from a visit the year prior: flic.kr/p/2pwy6Z3
Duluth, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024
CPKC's Duluth based job JS12 with a lone GP20C-ECO is seen spotting boxcars at the Valley Worldwide Logistics warehouse in the Duluth Seaway Port Authority Complex across Helberg Drive from the small former Soo Line yard that CPKC retains on Rices Point that this job and at least one other are based out of.
Historically the Northern Pacific was the dominant railroad in Duluth and they had massive facilities here, though multiple competing Class 1s also served the city which even today is reached by four of the remaining six mega systems. In addition to Soo and NP, the Omaha Road (CNW), and Great Northern maintained smaller yards here on Rices Point which had connections to Superior via the NP's Minnesota and Wisconsin drawbridges as well as the dual rail/road Interstate Bridge.
Rices Point was once laced with a truly astonishing amount of rail infrastructure and though greatly diminished you can still find CPKC and BNSF jobs working the area daily and can catch the UP making a trip over from Superior twice a week.
For a sweeping overview here's a shot of mine of this same job from a visit the year prior: flic.kr/p/2pwy6Z3
Duluth, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024