The classic Missabe Road.
Feeling and looking like their home rails in the mountainous landscape of British Columbia, a pair of BCOL units ( and another C40-8 ) cut through the fog and drizzle of northern Minnesota while h... (more)
At 40 years old, the #406 has already been on Missabe property for 16 years!
As the DM&IR name is faded out and into the history books by CN, a Wisconsin Central lock shows up on the former Missabe Road to protect the signal box at Ramshaw where the DW&P Rainy Sub crossed ... (more)
5 years ago the hold maroon had on the Missabe was dealt a death blow by former IC SD40-3's arriving on property. No complaining now, but it sure is different.
A pair of Dash 8's lead taconite rock from the mine to the plant in the midst of the first significant snowfall of the season in northern Minnesota.
DM&IR 402 leads 142 loads of taconite pellets down the Missabe Subdivision from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant bound for Proctor, MN.
A short train of chips and fines (broken taconite pellets) comes down the Missabe Sub. from the Minorca mine. At today's prices nothing is left to waste.
Coming down from U.S. Steel Minntac with 141 loads of steaming taconite pellets, IC 6252 prepares for the shove and will yard the train in Keenan before eventually going down to Proctor with them.
The once a week BNSF Kelly Lake local is about to roll off the CN Keenan Sub. and will pass through CN Keenan yard shortly then up the CN Missabe Sub then northbound on the CN Rainy Sub. with a sh... (more)
Long live the maroon and gold!
The former C&NW 8565 is right at home hauling crude ore to the mines at United Taconite. Seen here between Wolf and Iron Jct blasting down the main.
BLE 904, DMIR 400 and DMIR 405 lead a loaded taconite train through Iron Junction and towards Two Harbors.
Fooey on superstition of the day. A sun hole opens at the perfect time.
Cruisin’ on the T-Bird A southbound Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range “T-Bird” shuttle ore train rumbles by in a pan photo just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 23, 19... (more)
