The view looking back.
The St. Louis River.
Rounding another curve.
Scenes along the St. Louis River.
Through the trees we rolled.
Rails left between the tracks.
Scenes along our route.
Yet another curve.
Looking back.
More river scenes.
A look back.
While pretty, these purple flowers are an invasive species and I had seen them all over the place in the last week.
The Oliver Bridge, constructed in 1910 as a railway bridge by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company. A lower deck carrying road traffic was constructed in 1917 and connects the Gary–New Duluth neighbourhood in Duluth with the village of Oliver, Wisconsin. At a length of 1,889 feet, it is principally a steel truss construction. The upper deck carries a single track rail line and a lower deck carries the road connecting Wisconsin Highway 105 to Minnesota State Highway 39. The upper deck was built to allow a streetcar line to be constructed from Gary–New Duluth to south Superior connecting the Duluth and Superior streetcar systems. However, the line was never built and the systems were connected across the Twin Ports Harbor.
Views as we crossed the causeway along Mud Lake.
Our train passed beneath Oliver Bridge, whose lower level holds highway traffic while the upper level carries Canadian National trains.
Those photographers found us again.
Old radio antenna foundations in the St. Louis River.
A last view of Oliver Bridge.
Looking back before we arrived at Gary, our turn-back point. We would be allowed off the train to photograph the engine running around our train on the siding.
Our train at Gary.
Our passengers coming to the photo line.
Photo runby with our engine running around the train, after which I returned to the safari car.
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The engine came back towards our train.
I had never taken pictures of a coupling before.
Our female engineer enjoyed her job running our train. I relaxed and enjoyed the trip back to West Duluth then the bus returned me to the Radisson and I walked the Duluth Skywalk, as I had ben doing all week, stopping at Subway and my favorite $.60 Coca-Cola machine then returned to the Best Western and wrote the Iron Range Tour story before calling it a night.
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