Mixed train on the DM&IR. Trailing a beautiful, salt & pepper plume, DM&IR Locomotive #332 charges out of the woods near Knife River, MN with a mixed train headed for Two Harbors. The 332 ... (more)

Sunny skies at Little Sucker. DM&IR Consolidation #332 rumbles across the steel high trestle crossing the Little Sucker Creek just about 15 miles northeast of Duluth, MN. She's hauling a l... (more)

Charging through Palmers. DM&IR Consolidation #332 is making track speed of approximately 30 mph, as the barrels toward a rural grade crossing in Palmers, MN. The locomotive, which normall... (more)

Yes, it really is that green! DM&IR Consolidation Locomotive #332 passes the "green pond" in Palmers, MN, en route to Two Harbors with a freight train for photographers. The alm... (more)

DM&IR 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Engineer's Station. Here's a detailed view of the Engineer's Station on board DM&IR #227, a massive 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Locomotive, located in the main... (more)

DM&IR 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Fireman's Station. Here's a detailed view of the Fireman's Station on board DM&IR #227, a massive 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Locomotive, located in the main e... (more)

DM&IR 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotive Cab. Of the 3 surviving DM&IR Yellowstones, only one offers the public the chance to actually enter (and admire) the cab. DM&IR #227 is per... (more)

DM&IR 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" Locomotive. In the early 1940s, numerous US railroads went looking for ultra-heavy freight locomotives to assist in the war effort. As a result severa... (more)

DMIR 193 which is operated by the North Shore Scenic Railroad rolls its excursion train past the landmark Fitgers Brewery in Duluth running on former DMIR trackage between Duluth and Two Harbors.

Sometimes on the railroad s*** happens, and this is a perfect example. With some acetylene and a BFH (Big F***ing Hammer is the technical term) the #316 was fixed up and headed back to move more c... (more)

On a clear summer night, Yellowstone #225 sits in Proctor, greeting visitors taking Highway 2 into Proctor. These beasts were once the main power for ore trains along the line. Now EMDs and GEs ha... (more)

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range EMD SD40-3 No. 403, a rebuilt former Southern Pacific SD45T-2 Tunnel Motor, leads a Canadian National taconite ore empty as it hustles past milepost 6 north of Waldo n... (more)

DMIR 332 leads an excursion through downtown Duluth. The famed aerial bridge can be seen to the left.

A 1906 vintage 50 ton ore car, one of the first all steel ore cars built for the Missabe, donated to the Soudan Underground State Park by the DMIR in 1972. This car was one of 4,250 cars of this ... (more)

The Big Boy 4014 was in town, but Lake Superior Railroad Musuem's 2-8-0 also deserved some attention. It's seen making its way uphill through Duluth.