Duluth Missabe and Iron Range SD9 170 resting at the Proctor Diesel House August 1985. The 170 was built in April 1959. The Missabe relied heavily on SD9 roadswitchers from the 50s to the 90s and ... (more)
Duluth Missabe and Iron Range C630 903 at Proctor MN June 1974. The 903 was built as Union Pacific 2903 in May 1966 and retired by the UP in November 1973. Picked up by the power short Missabe in ... (more)
The crew of this 0700 Proctor switch job have the dynamic brakes howling on their three veteran EMD SD40 products as they fight gravity carefully maneuvering R92181 13 and its heavy train of 132 s... (more)
While being swarmed by countless bugs, I took this shot of IC 6251 sitting with ore train on the west end of CN’s Proctor Yard near Duluth, MN. Northeast Minnesota is a haven for iron ore. Train... (more)
DMIR 317, an SDM rebuilt from an SD9, idles at DMIR's Proctor engine facilities along with DMIR 418, a former Seaboard Coastline SD45-2 which has been rebuilt into an SD40-3.Missabe had two former... (more)