After being blocked by a train from a "foreign" railroad, (really the CN's DWP) a limestone train heads north with three trains working Proctor on this busy day. In the immediate background, the E... (more)

The Proctor Road Switch cuts off the twenty eight loads of limestone they just brought up the hill from Duluth and head back towards the diesel house for the next assignment inside a once again bu... (more)

Identical twins #400 and #401 began their lives out west, beating the mountains that caused other engines to overheat. They came to Minnesota and conquered the snow wearing the classy maroon of th... (more)

The Proctor Road Switch climbs out of Duluth with twenty eight loads of limestone from Lakehead storage bound for Proctor Yard.

A pair of old M.o.W. carts marked Duluth, Missabe, Iron Range RR Biwabik Section sit on an old abandoned spur that once served a explosives company that supplied blasting supplies to area taconite... (more)

On a clear northern Minnesota day, another train of fresh baked taconite pellets heads for Two Harbors, MN under the leadership of DM&IR 403 with sisters DM&IR 408 and DM&IR 401. A quad set of ba... (more)

Rolling around an elevated curve next I-35 with 68 empty coal hoppers that are being returned to revenue service.

Study of the cab air brake gauges on the right-hand side of DM&IR 227

DM&IR 227 is the best preserved of the three Missabe Yellowstones, thanks to the efforts of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and members of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. The Society ... (more)

DM&IR 409 leads taconite loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant southward on the Iron Range Sub. past the CN shop and yard at Biwabik and under Big Bird's house in the last light of another winte... (more)

DM&IR 157,212,185 are leaving Proctor yard heading to the docks in Duluth on a bright September afternoon.

As the Keenan Switch comes down the hill from Minntac, the crew jumps out and takes in a little fresh air before they prepare to jump off and set handbrakes and throw switches for these cars to ho... (more)

After a near death experience including shooting flames out the exhaust stacks, the DM&IR 215 was repaired at Proctor and is now working on the former Missabe again. Glad to see it was repaired a... (more)

The second of many coal empties makes its way off the North Shore Scenic Railroad's line along the north shore of Lake Superior (visible in the background). The coal cars are reentering service af... (more)

Back from a near death experience, DM&IR 215 lives on after repairs at Proctor to serve as the last SD38-2 maroon Missabe engine on the CN roster. Shown pulling loaded log cars out of Mt. Iron Ya... (more)