It was a fun day with lots of onlookers and gawkers as DMIR 332 smoked up the area as they were doing some switching moves along Railroad Street in downtown Duluth, MN for the North Shore Scenic R... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

DMIR 186 approaches the DMIR yard at Keenan, MN with a raw ore train in September of 1987. This train sounded as good as it looked!

DMIR 332 works switching some cars around along Railroad Street near the waterfront at Duluth, MN.

DMIR 189 leads a loaded ore train into the yard at Proctor, MN on a beautiful day in September of 1987. This train sounded as good as it looked.

A string of veteran DMIR ore cars sits on a siding track illuminated by streetlights in the former DW&P yard at Virginia, MN while the sky above has impressive northern lights display happening.

A trio of CN painted EMD's make way out of Collingwood as they prepare for their assault up Proctor Hill.

DMIR 408, CN 5244 and IC 6264 prepare their departure from CN's Dock 6 in Duluth.

DMIR SD-M 303 would be retired just under a year later.

This was fun to watch as the passersby turned their heads while driving by on Railroad Street as the NSSR ran their steam locomotive to do a few switching moves.

It was fun watching all the traffic passing by with the "what are all these people waiting for look" on their faces before the crossing signals activated. This is what all those people w... (more)

Loaded ore makes its way into Proctor behind a DM&IR tunnel motor, a CN SD40-2W and an IC SD40-3. The EMD's that have served the Iron Range for years are on their last legs. Rebuilt widecab GE's c... (more)

DMIR 332 thundering up the grade along Lake Superior and out of downtown Duluth, MN with a fall excursion to Palmers siding.

The fall steam excursion run from the Duluth Depot to Palmers siding featuring DMIR 332 rolls on the Lakefront line under the Fitgers Brewery complex on the shore of Lake Superior.

The fall steam excursion run from the Duluth Depot to Palmers siding featuring DMIR 332.