Missabe RDC No. 1 crosses French River on its journey between Two Harbors and Duluth, Minnesota. (The RDC is, in fact, a former Alaska RDC-2 lettered DM&IR for Railfan Weekend 2013, sponsored by ... (more)

On National Train day DM&IR 193 with American Flags on it's cab enjoys the beautiful weather before helping switch out 261's train.

A U-717 with 141 cars is loaded out and ready to depart United Taconite at 2200 hrs. with DM&IR 403 in charge of the trip back south to Proctor. A green glow from the yard signal and the plant it... (more)

Three road units off a Minntac ore train have come to the rescue of a Proctor Roadswitch with two units that stalled on the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with ore empties.

Three road units off a Minntac ore train have come to the rescue of a Proctor Roadswitch with two units that stalled on the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with ore empties.

With 403 hiding CN-painted sister 404 this train looks like the Missabe of old.

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor Yard as the sun retreats at the end of a warm summer day.

DM&IR 316 looks right at home at Two Harbors. This SD-M is owned by the Missabe Railroad Historical Society and used by the Lake Superior Railroad Museum after being donated to the MRHS by the CN... (more)

Empties from Two Harbors rolls into Biwabik heading back for the mines.

Resting in the yard at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

Old Steel. Here is a trio of 1907 built ore cars. They made great cars in ballast service due to the manual doors on both ends. Loaned and later donated to the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist ... (more)

A loaded DM&IR taconite train makes it's around the curve at Bear Trap road on it's way South to Proctor on a bitter cold morning in February 1996

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor while a thunderstorm develops over Wisconsin.

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)