Delivered by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1910, this 2-8-0 worked hard hauling 48 loaded 50 ton cars or 2700 tons of crude ore at a time from the Soudan Underground Mine on the Vermillion Range... (more)

The first railroad line to Tower was built by the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad (D&IR) and completed in 1884. The Soudan Mine had opened the previous year, necessitating the construction of a rai... (more)