Due to bridge work in Duluth in 1999 the Missabe used its trackage rights over the North Shore Scenic Railroad and ran light engines from Two Harbors to Duluth to pick up seven freight cars. Here... (more)

"DM&IR 1" recreates a classic scene at Knife River. From 1953 until 1961, the Missabe Road's RDC-3 often worked the passenger run between Duluth (Endion Station) and Ely-Winton, and would have cr... (more)

"DM&IR 1" stands at Marbles between shuttle trips on the North Shore Scenic Railroad. The actual DM&IR 1 was an RDC-3 that later went to Northern Pacific.

RDC fake out! How do you make a DM&IR RDC out of an Alaska/NYC RDC? Eight rolls of red and white duct tape for starters. Blue and yellow stripes would have looked VERY out of place on a Missabe... (more)

DM&IR 215 has been reactivated from short term storage and is seen working the E-Lead Switch while B&LE 906 prepares to pick up a load of limestone for Minorca.

DM&IR Pacific 403, leading train No. 6 between Duluth and Ely, pauses to set out a bad order coach at Marbles before continuing north. (In reality this is Soo Line 2719 with DM&IR lettering. One... (more)

The DM&IR Pacific 403 (Soo 2719) steams across the bridge at Knife River with a pure Missabe consist in tow. Another image from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum's 2013 Railfan Weekend, organized... (more)

DM&IR SD18 #193 leads a trainload of passengers back to the depot on North Shore Scenic Railroad trackage passing Duluth's famed waterfront and Canal Park with the Aerial lift bridge and the retir... (more)

Soo 2719 dressed up as DM&IR pacific 403 for a photo charter. The headlight is off of DM&IR 2-8-0 332 (D&NE 28 in the museum's collection).

Soo 2719 is dressed up as DM&IR pacific 403.

Missabe RDC No. 1 crosses French River on its journey between Two Harbors and Duluth, Minnesota. (The RDC is, in fact, a former Alaska RDC-2 lettered DM&IR for Railfan Weekend 2013, sponsored by ... (more)

On National Train day DM&IR 193 with American Flags on it's cab enjoys the beautiful weather before helping switch out 261's train.

A U-717 with 141 cars is loaded out and ready to depart United Taconite at 2200 hrs. with DM&IR 403 in charge of the trip back south to Proctor. A green glow from the yard signal and the plant it... (more)

Three road units off a Minntac ore train have come to the rescue of a Proctor Roadswitch with two units that stalled on the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with ore empties.

Three road units off a Minntac ore train have come to the rescue of a Proctor Roadswitch with two units that stalled on the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with ore empties.