DMIR SD9 Nos. 162, 137 and 134 are being readied at Proctor Yard to head up a train of empty ore jennies to the Missabe Iron Range. SD18 No. 183 awaits its assignment in the background. These SDs ... (more)
The ever resourceful Missabe Road. Take an ore car and repurpose it for other uses and it would be a neat addition to the HO scale layout.
Back when the Missabe still interchanged with CN at the small yard near Shelton Jct. a person could see the changes happening before their very eyes. Here is the last days the DM&IR 308 (rebuilt ... (more)
DMIR units normally could be found working on the WC almost year round after the WC started to snare a substantial amount of all rail ore runs from Duluth to connections in Chicago. These were mos... (more)
Recently restored DM&N business car Missabe is shuffled by a DM&IR diesel as the museum moved exhibits around prior to winter. The Missabe would end back up indoors in a high visibility position a... (more)
Freshly painted and washed SD38s power a mining engineer train that included passenger cars from the WC, Missabe and Duluth museum. BN's "Range Rocket" local holds the siding in the distance and w... (more)
A crude ore train dumps at the Eveleth Taconite plant on a bitter cold day (-37F was the low, -14F was the high).
coal train on DMIR Adolf, MN
Two veterans side by side...
The setting sun casts a nice glow over DM&IR ore cars that are over 60 years old but still in daily revenue service for CN.
A pair of light power sets slowly roll towards the engine facility as the sun breaks through.
DMIR 403 East passes under Rte 666 just west of Allen Jct.
The last Missabe painted tunnel motors heads east by the search lights at the west end of Sparta on its way to Two Harbors.
Missabe 403 leads ore loads downgrade into Two Harbors as fall colors begin to show along the north shore of Lake Superior.
One of Missabe’s late-phase SD9s cruises toward the docks at Duluth at Zim, Minnesota, on September 25, 1994. Number 166 was built in 1959, and still carries the original paint scheme.
