What caught my eye were the string of maroon and gold Missabe engines.

The pair of Missabe painted SD-M's find the sunlight as the crew completes a 31-car delivery in La Crosse.

The Chesapeake & Indiana heads south across the former NKP in Thomaston with a pair of former DMIR SD-M's for power.

A pair of former DMIR SD-M's, both still wearing the original paint, lead 75 loads to La Crosse, passing a classic searchlight signal in the process.

The 815 is obviously a former DM&IR unit and the 95 is a former Mississippi Export unit (exx-CSXT 6671, exxx-SBD 6671, nee-ACL 929).

The SD-M designation came after the Missabe's SD9 and SD18s high short hoods were chopped at the Proctor shops.

The former DMIR 310 rests unassigned on a spur in Pierre, SD. The only signs that this SD-M no longer belongs on a Minnesota mining railroad is the LTEX lettering peeling up from under the cab.

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD-M No. 310 is on the point of a ore train at Wolf, Minnesota, on the night of September 19, 1991.

Rolling east at a steady 30mph near Hannahville the DMIR 315,170,209,312 and 90 loads of Minorca ore are fighting through a fairly heavy Upper Michigan snow squall. Most years these winter only Mi... (more)

Dusky skies at Wolf
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD9r (SD-M) No. 310 sits with a train at Wolf, Minnesota, in the heart of the Iron Range on September 19, 1991. The clouds in the dusk... (more)

Former DMIR SD18 #169, became EJE 804 and was sold to the Indiana Box Car Corp after the CN take over. It then found a new life on the CKIN in northwestern Indiana Here, the 804 is seen heading so... (more)

Part of a private photo shoot at LSRM called the Night of the Missabe. Downtown Duluth looms in the background.

DM&IR 316 takes a night off from working the yard job at Proctor, in truth 316 sits under the depot awning at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum with DSS&A 101 and the ex-Cliffs Erie F9B. Big thank... (more)

An assortment of engines of all kinds are presented in this view of LTEX's locomotive shops.

DMIR 307,201 swing off the main into the pellet plant at North Fairlane.