I feel very lucky to be able to shoot Missabe maroon in 2012, 8 years after one of the greatest railroads was merged into... well the CN.

2-8-8-4 223 at Two Harbors waits for its next assignment.

DM&IR 2-8-0 1218 repositions engines in the Two Harbors roundhouse.

In a somewhat rare at least for this winter snowstorm, the crew on board DM&IR 405 has to be discussing what kind of moron is out taking train pictures during a snowstorm while they pull up to tak... (more)

After heavy thunderstorms rolled through the Twin Ports the afternoon Proctor Roadswitch rolls to pick up a cut of ore cars at Lakehead while passing under the abandoned approach to Dock 5.

I guess this is another one that falls into the "strange but true" category. On Nov. 12, 1977, four DMIR SD18s were leading a northbound Clinchfield Railroad empty hopper train at Trammel, VA. I... (more)

A brisk February afternoon at Proctor Yard.

Help is on the way for a “sinking” train display at the Museum of Mining in Chisholm, Minn. In 1954, the first exhibit at the new museum was Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway 2-8-0 No. 347... (more)

Empties for Unitac are assembled with the last maroon tunnel motor in charge.

Sitting just outside of Keenan Yard, CN503-98, nah! it is still in maroon and gold so this American Crane is DMIR X-19.

Empties north!

CN has its own "heritage" fleet if you consider all its merger road paint schemes still represented in every day action. Here DM&IR 215 works the north end of Proctor yard.

On a perfect spring afternoon, the DM&IR 215 and DM&IR 212 work switching duties in the yard at Proctor. Not long ago they were running ore trains up and down the Missabe Subdivision pulling those... (more)

Friday the 13th and everything looks like it should with blue skies and steaming taconite pellets coming off the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac rolling south for Two Harbors.

With 10 rebuilt SD40-3's set to arrive any week now, the fate of these tunnel motors is uncertain. Having been rebuilt a few years ago I assume they will continue to be Iron Range mainstays, but i... (more)