Skyline drive is great place to get an overview of the action in Duluth. Here the DMIR is switching the dock while a BN coal train unloads in Superior. I will remember this trip from watching the ... (more)

The circle of life, for taconite anyways, is evident in this photo at the DM&IR ore dock in Duluth. Limestone has been brought in by boat to go to the mines, where it will be mixed with ore to pro... (more)

DM&IR #189 brings a loaded ore train into Proctor Yard on a beautiful September day. 3 First Gen SD's sure do sound nice!

Ore loads hustle into Nomi Jct behind the DM&IR 403.

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range “heritage” SD40-3 No. 403 leads a Canadian National taconite ore empty as it hustles past milepost 6 north of Waldo not long after climbing the hill out of Two Har... (more)

A nice array of Missabe SDs on not such a nice day. On this cold, rainy (sometimes snowy), day in October 1982, we have a view of an SD18, one of the first chop nose SD9s, normal SD9s, and a coupl... (more)

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stood guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while as DMIR #189 switches the dock in the b... (more)

DMIR power yard Duluth

DMIR 210 leads an SD38/tunnel motor trio on a dock ore train as it begins its descent down Proctor Hill to the Duluth ore docks. Loads typically ran left handed down the grade, although by this ti... (more)

Starting from a near dead stop, the two Missabe motors are really digging in here as they lug 147 sand cars up the stiff grade towards Duluth.

The Skyline Parkway in Duluth is a great place to get an overview of the area and this day was a perfect example. An empty DM&IR ore train is departing the dock with empties for Proctor while a BN... (more)

Oh what a beautiful sound. DMIR 158 leads two sister as they prepare to assault the grade to Proctor in May of 1992. Gotta love those hi-hood early EMD's.

Looking south on the old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range railroad laid tracks that once served the Thunderbird South coarse crusher loadout which came online in 1976 to help feed the Fairlane pelle... (more)

DMIR 309, an SDM (rebuilt from an SD18) is mated up with SD38-2s 215 and 212 at Two Harbors, MN between runs on a pleasant late afternoon in October 1990. The 215 was originally a Bessemer & Lake ... (more)

Actual rails laid by the Missabe RR found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. The Missabe put this branch line in for the sole purpose to service a few nat... (more)