3.4. Tischer Creek

Also called Congdon Creek, this designated trout stream flows past Mount Royal Shopping Center before cascading down the Duluth hillside to Lake Superior. A large steel bridge carries the tracks over this scenic waterway, which turned into a torrent during the floods of June 2012. All the bridges on the North Shore Scenic Railroad are of steel construction, owing to the fact that the owner of the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway was U.S. Steel. The bridges were built to carry the weight of heavy iron ore trains, although the Lakefront Line saw few ore train movements.