A few people still live in Skibo, MN but back in the day Skibo was once the site of a large logging operation. A yard with several tracks located just north of the Saint Louis River once supported... (more)

Long gone from the CN active roster and shown in better days, this SD-M of the former DM&IR/ Missabe Road days was earning it's keep on this snowy New Years Day retrieiving a bad order set-out an... (more)

Built in 1906, the interior of an old Duluth and Iron Range caboose shows a little wear. Furry woodland creatures with fury now call this place home along with some birds and other assorted anim... (more)

Built in 1906 by the Duluth & Iron Range RR this caboose is showing every bit it's 106 years of existence.

The raising of the train project at the Minnesota Museum of Mining as been completed and the DM&IR 347 now sits on fresh ballast and new ties above ground. See photo 396003 for a story on why the... (more)

This is not a mirage. A pair of DMIR SD9s is seen hauling a molten steel "bottle" train under wire on the South Shore. Tom Golden photo.

Cruisin’ on the T-Bird
A southbound Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range “T-Bird” shuttle ore train rumbles by in a pan photo just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 23, 19... (more)

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

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.