DMIR SD9 No. 158 is serviced along with SD18s 177 and 190 during the night in the Proctor diesel shop at Proctor, MN. this shop was built in the 1950s to support maintenance of the then new SD9s. ... (more)

DM&IR No. 193 leads a northbound train along Lake Superior. While this may have the look of an actual DM&IR taconite train, the reality is this is a photo freight using two locomotives that live a... (more)

DMIR 203 and mate 207 await their next assignment near midnight outside the Proctor diesel shop on a beautiful summer evening. The two units were part of an 8 unit order from EMD delivered in June... (more)

A rare occurrence found 403 working as the dock switch in Two Harbors. The locomotive is one of only two still remaining in full Missabe paint and lettering. Here it spots vintage Missabe ore cars... (more)

On a foggy and misty day the anchor off the USS Duluth (LPD-6) is moved from a flatcar onto its concrete display stand along Duluth's Lakewalk near the Vietnam Veteran's War Memorial. The USS Dulu... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: The number of locomotives occupying "Larry's Alley" now stretches back even more and under the overpass considerably. Still sad to see my buddie... (more)

The SD-M designation came after the Missabe's SD9 and SD18s high short hoods were chopped at the Proctor shops.

A train of loaded taconite pellets passes the former DMIR roundhouse at Biwabik on its way to Proctor. At the time of this photo the DMIR had been owned by Canadian National for only a few months.

Little pieces of the Missabe Road are still to be found albeit they are getting harder and harder to find. Here is an old Adlake lantern used on a short spur to an industry long gone that was onc... (more)

DMIR's maroon survivor SD38 works Proctor yard.

DMIR 400 and IC 6259 hustle T-bird loads south on a puffy cloud filled late afternoon.

The last active caboose on the DM&IR brings up the rear of the MRF on this day (April 20) in 1999. The caboose was being used in Two Harbors as a shoving platform and was headed to Proctor for ma... (more)

The Missabe Road's former EJ&E (C&O) switcher moves SD-M 305 off the turntable. This switcher was used to move dead units around the diesel facility and was sold to Hallett Dock in Duluth after th... (more)

In March of 2000 the DM&IR suffered a major derailment of a loaded ore train at the base of Steelton Hill. The train was an all-rail move from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to Geneva Steel in Utah. T... (more)

There are still pieces of history out there. An old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad P-1 Class Box car sits being used as a storage shed on United Taconite property as it's rots it's way b... (more)