Empties north!
CN has its own "heritage" fleet if you consider all its merger road paint schemes still represented in every day action. Here DM&IR 215 works the north end of Proctor yard.
On a perfect spring afternoon, the DM&IR 215 and DM&IR 212 work switching duties in the yard at Proctor. Not long ago they were running ore trains up and down the Missabe Subdivision pulling those... (more)
Friday the 13th and everything looks like it should with blue skies and steaming taconite pellets coming off the hill from U.S. Steel Minntac rolling south for Two Harbors.
With 10 rebuilt SD40-3's set to arrive any week now, the fate of these tunnel motors is uncertain. Having been rebuilt a few years ago I assume they will continue to be Iron Range mainstays, but i... (more)
Just a year on the property, 409 leads a short MRF south at Skibo en route to two Harbors.
A rainy day drives me inside to climb up into one of three Missabe Yellowstones in and around the Twin Ports.
A young boy sits in the engineers seat and sticks his head slightly out the window to imagine what it must have been like to run one of the largest steam locomotives ever built, the DM&IR Yellowst... (more)
Deleivered 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 from the Soudan Mine on the Vermillion Range to the shores of Lake... (more)
Here are the controls of a Baldwin Locomotive Works steam engine 2-8-0. Delivered in 1910, this 2-8-0 worked hard hauling 48 loaded 50 ton cars or 2700 tons of crude ore from the Soudan Mine on ... (more)
Crews use compressed air provided by DM&IR 193 to clean snow from a switch.
Vintage power winds coal empties through the curves as they head off of the BNSF to home rails and a trip up the Lakefront Line for storage.
Vintage power shoves in Run 8 up the longest hill on the Lakefront Line.
Coal empties hold up traffic on the busiest crossing on the NSSR as coal empties are shoved back north for more storage.
I have wanted this shot for a long time. In the summer its really hard and a short passenger train just doesnt do it for me. In the winter when the line shifts to car storage normally the train is... (more)
