A loaded ore train with cars equipped with traditional friction bearing trucks and steel brake shoes creates a smoke cloud as it nears the base of the 2.2% grade of Proctor Hill near the Duluth or... (more)

Having been delivered earlier in the year this pair of freshly rebuilt tunnel motors lift ore empties up the southbound main out of Two Harbors. The track the train is on has a 2.9% grade as it di... (more)

DM&IR SD9 168, the only original Missabe unit in this set, does its part to help lift ore empties up from the ore dock in Duluth to the yard at Proctor. The old veteran would be off the roster the... (more)

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

An overkill of power takes Minntac loads through West Wye headed for Two Harbors. Trees were flocked very nicely.

One of the two remaining Missabe-painted units on CN arrives with a loaded ore train in Duluth. I recommend the Hunter Burger!

While the morning Proctor Roadswitch job rolls overhead on the approach to Dock 6 a U-710 crew prepares to cut off the three units at Lakehead and run light to Proctor to pick up their train of em... (more)

With steam curling off it's heavy payload, a trio of tunnel motors head for Two Harbors.

Four days of rain helped to greatly to lower the fire danger in northern Minnesota. Here Missabe 403 rolls past the site of a small grass fire where the grass is starting to regenerate.

193 helps assemble the evening train.

A Tunnel and two SD40-2W's roll south towards Proctor in some sweet morning light.

Nine years ago today (May 10, 2004) CN purchased Great Lakes Transportation (DM&IR/B&LE). How I remember the Missabe from my younger years is reflected in this image of two high hood SDs going all... (more)

Looking like a mixed train, Missabe 193 prepares to shove four passenger and two freight cars to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The freight cars are for a display on Saturday for National Rail... (more)

E-Lead spans the entire right side of Proctor Yard. So many cars are being moved through here that they just built a new secondary Yard Office off to the right near the vehicles, specifically for ... (more)

With Lake Superior on the right and Interstate 35 on the left, Missabe 193 rolls alongside Duluth's Lakewalk with 123 empty coal cars coming out of winter storage for Detroit Edison.