DMIR SD-M 316 (a rebuilt SD18) leads heritage paint scheme SD9 No. 129 and another SD18 as the ore train descends Proctor Hill approaching the Duluth ore dock near 40th Ave. W. in Duluth, Minn. Th... (more)

Fresh from repainting at DM&IR's Proctor shop, SD18 193 leads a mixed train of Missabe equipment along the North Shore Scenic Railroad for members of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. DM&IR... (more)

ex-JKL 7311, exx-TIPP 7311, nee-C&O 7311/1811

DMIR 305, formerly SD18 no. 188, now an SD-M, idles at the Proctor, MN diesel shop near a water plug once used to fill the likes of Missabe Yellowstones. The rebuild gave the then 36 year old SD18... (more)

A quartet of SD18/9s idles at Proctor shops between runs to the iron range led by SD18 179. The Missabe held on to steam power into 1960 when their last order of SD18s arrived to complete retireme... (more)

Back in 2013 our normal second engine for coal trains, DM&IR #316, was down with electrical issues. Here we the DMIR #193 lugging 122 empties into Rices Point Yard with all the billboards and sigh... (more)

Engineer Dave Winkelman (along with his younger brother Paul) are about ready to run around the 65 car unit train of corn on the edge of North Judson. The train will then be shoved across Indiana ... (more)

Ready to run the 16 miles to North Judson, on the former Erie main, with 65 loads of corn for interchange with CSX. How time flies - I was only 15 at the time of this photo.

All is quiet now, as a few passerby take notice of a hulking train passing them. In December however, the tracks the train is directly on, from the pole with the sign all the way back to the end o... (more)

Onto the BNSF track now,past Rices Point Yard, the coal empty is headed for the former DM&IR ore docks, where they will cut off and leave the train. The track they are pulling down on is the West... (more)

DM&IR #193 and EMC #4211 both spent their lives hauling ore, so 121 empty coal cars are a piece of cake. Here they wind through the Canal Park area of Duluth, almost to the BNSF's Rices Point Yard... (more)

Two veteran EMD models shove hard on 117 empty Detroit Edison coal cars being positioned along the North Shore Scenic Railroad for temporary winter storage.

DMIR 181 in Missabe' arrowhead scheme waits its next assignment at Keenan Yard on the Missabe Iron Range. This yard is located just southwest of Iron Junction on a branch toward Hibbing, MN just o... (more)