The leaves are gone but the EMD's aren't -- for now. 13,000 horsepower sourced from three SD40-types and a solo C40-8 slug up Proctor Hill and around Bachelor's Curve with a load of Minntac limest... (more)
A trio of DMIR SD40-3's (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train through the "S" curve at Culver, MN.
PTC enforcements are never good (from a crews perspective) but a glitch overspeed enforcement just around the corner bought us enough time for the sun to come out, revealing a rainbow above the DM... (more)
The Iron Range has always been a safe haven for CN's veteran EMD fleet (much like Florida's Bone Valley once was for CSX)....but....if I had taken a bet on which of these two veterans would leave ... (more)
Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)
Tunnel motors race ore empties north up the Missabe Sub on a brisk Fall morning.
A trio of DMIR SD40-3 (rebuilt SD45T-2 Tunnel Motors of SP heritage) leads a southbound empty limestone train past the derelict DMIR depot in Saginaw, MN.
DMIR 193 leads the Two Harbors Fall Colors train back towards Duluth on a gloomy fall day.
DMIR 408 leads a loaded limestone train passing through Sax along Highway 7 during the heart of golden hour.
DMIR 408 leads a set of loaded limestone at milepost 26 in Burnett on the Missabe Sub.
The proctor switch with a trio of former DMIR tunnel motors unloading pellets on top of the Duluth ore dock.
DM&IR #193 crosses the bridge in Palmers on the return trip to Duluth.
DM&IR #193 fills in for steam locomotive #332 on the Two Harbors excursion.
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD38AC No. 206 leads a taconite ore train through Fairbanks, Minnesota, on the morning of September 30, 1989. Only fifteen SD38AC locomotives were built by EMD—s... (more)
Led by EMD SD38AC No. 203, a southbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range ore train is just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 9, 1989.
