After dropping off the conductor, DMIR #193 throttles up as they prepare to pull 130 cars by the South Switch and Palmers and pickup the four cars that were set out the day before.
Great looking pair of iron ore veterans bring 130 all rail taconite cars back to the BNSF after being stored all winter. This train was brought up when it was -30, quite the change! This is a not ... (more)
DMIR SD-M 316 (a rebuilt SD18) leads heritage paint scheme SD9 No. 129 and another SD18 as the ore train descends Proctor Hill approaching the Duluth ore dock near 40th Ave. W. in Duluth, Minn. Th... (more)
DMIR 129 repainted in its original scheme works the Interstate Branch at Bootleg, Wis. on July 7, 1991. This heritage repaint was short lived and 129 was shipped off to the Birmingham Southern a f... (more)
DMIR 166, a Phase IV SD9, and the last high nose SD9 to operate on the Missabe joins with SD18 No. 181 to compare notes at Proctor, Minn. in July 1976. Note the subtle difference between the units... (more)