DM&IR SD38AC 206 and SD38-2 211 with a loaded T-bird at Iron Junction, Minnesota. September 30, 2006. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

An eastbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite train rumbles through Brimson, Minnesota, on the trip to the ore dock at Two Harbors on September 30, 1989.

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite ore train marches through Wales, Minnesota, on the railroad’s Iron Junction to Two Harbors route on September 30, 1989.

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD38AC No. 206 leads a taconite ore train through Fairbanks, Minnesota, on the morning of September 30, 1989. Only fifteen SD38AC locomotives were built by EMD—s... (more)

Eastbound taconite train Spruce

DMIR main near Mountain Iron

After a good snowstorm, DMIR 206,209,and 213 wait with a full train to head south.

A T-Bird heads for Fairlane Jct. as an ore empty waits to come off the line from Two Harbors.

DMIR 206, DMIR 869, DMIR 303

CN's afternoon Proctor Roadswitch positions ore cars for dumping on top of Dock 6 while DPU BNSF 9646 helps deliver PRB coal across the bay at MERC.

Loaded ore train from the United Taconite plant arrives at Proctor and enters the receiving yard.

On a beautiful fall afternoon, the 15:30 Proctor Roadswitch lugs 140 empty ore cars up the 2.2% of Proctor Hill with Lake Superior and Duluth's landmark Aerial Lift Bridge in the distance.

Southbound T-bird at the Hwy 37 overpass, 2:08 PM.

Engine 203 meets 206 as it enters Fairlane at 5:16 PM.