With 403 hiding CN-painted sister 404 this train looks like the Missabe of old.

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor Yard as the sun retreats at the end of a warm summer day.

DM&IR 316 looks right at home at Two Harbors. This SD-M is owned by the Missabe Railroad Historical Society and used by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum after being donated to the MRHS by the CN... (more)

Empties from Two Harbors rolls into Biwabik heading back for the mines.

Resting in the yard at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

Old Steel. Here is a trio of 1907 built ore cars. They made great cars in ballast service due to the manual doors on both ends. Loaned and later donated to the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist ... (more)

A loaded DM&IR taconite train makes it's around the curve at Bear Trap road on it's way South to Proctor on a bitter cold morning in February 1996

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor while a thunderstorm develops over Wisconsin.

A loaded ore train with cars equipped with traditional friction bearing trucks and steel brake shoes creates a smoke cloud as it nears the base of the 2.2% grade of Proctor Hill near the Duluth or... (more)

Having been delivered earlier in the year this pair of freshly rebuilt tunnel motors lift ore empties up the southbound main out of Two Harbors. The track the train is on has a 2.9% grade as it di... (more)

DM&IR SD9 168, the only original Missabe unit in this set, does its part to help lift ore empties up from the ore dock in Duluth to the yard at Proctor. The old veteran would be off the roster the... (more)

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD9 No. 129 sits in Kennan Yard, Minnesota, on the night of September 21, 1991. Specially repainted in the original scheme, the locomotive was partially hidden in th... (more)

An overkill of power takes Minntac loads through West Wye headed for Two Harbors. Trees were flocked very nicely.

One of the two remaining Missabe-painted units on CN arrives with a loaded ore train in Duluth. I recommend the Hunter Burger!

While the morning Proctor Roadswitch job rolls overhead on the approach to Dock 6 a U-710 crew prepares to cut off the three units at Lakehead and run light to Proctor to pick up their train of em... (more)