The last Missabe painted Tunnelmotor speeds under Highway 33 with ore empties for Unitac. A fitting way to end our vacation on the former DMIR.

DM&IR 400 is in charge of taconite loads from the Minorca mine while they have a rolling meet in the yard at Biwabik with an empty train heading back to the Minntac mine.

DM&IR 407 S is in charge of a U-789 from North America's Largest Taconite Operation (U.S. Steel, Minntac) on a cold early fall morning near Iron Jct.

A standard design scale test car owned by the State of Minnesota makes even a short 24' ore car look huge. The Missabe converted this car to scale monitoring duty.

With extensive trackwork on the Iron Range Division during the fall of 1999 causing congestion, the DM&IR ran a special freight move from Duluth to Two Harbors. Here the train is rolling along the... (more)

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.