DMIR 169 and mate descend Proctor Hill on Duluth's west side with a manifest freight for interchange in downtown Duluth with connecting railroads BN, CNW, MILW, and SOO. The railroad normally used... (more)

DMIR 165 leads a quartet of SDs on a manifest freight west across the unusual Interstate bridge that connects Oliver, WI to Steelton, MN. The two level bridge handles rail traffic on the top and h... (more)

SD9 126, one of Missabe's older SD9s at the time "drops its pants" at Proctor roundhouse. The doors below the walkway allow access under the floor. This side does no appear to have as mu... (more)

An eastbound SP Roseburg to Eugene lumber drag was attacking Rice Hill with all it's might.

C&NW low-nose SD9 #6604, built with a high-nose as #1704, leads RS11 #4251 and a GP30 as it approaches Waseca, MN.

SP 4333 and six more SD9s get a free wash in the November rain at Brooklyn Yard on Portland, Oregon's southeast side. The venerable SDs still have some good years ahead of them at this point, and ... (more)

BN 6110, former Great Northern 583 and F9B 9819 are paired up at Superior, WI being serviced for their next assignment in July 1973. The B unit was NP 7010C/6709B and although repainted for freigh... (more)

Rain and a bit of snow mixed it up on a damp, chilly October day as DMIR went about its business of safely lowering another ore train from Proctor yard to the Duluth docks. This consist was a quar... (more)

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

DMIR Phase 3 SD9 no. 158 sports its 1967 color scheme at the Proctor, MN diesel shop, surrounded by arrowheads which became the "new" color scheme in 1970. The first new units delivered ... (more)

Oregon is home to two Black Widow diesels: PNWR GP9 1801 and LLW SD9 5399. Built as Southern Pacific 4364 in February 1955, this engine was later renumbered SP 3877. Rebuilt in early 1973, it w... (more)

A happy ending (so far) for former DMIR (Missabe) SD9 no. 166. With the nose chopped, it now works former NP/BN branch lines in central Washington on the Columbia Basin Railway. Trips may include ... (more)

In 1967, Chicago Burlington & Quincy‘s 114-mile Alliance to Sterling line is not at all what it will become in just a few years, when the flood of coal from the Powder River Basin starts moving ... (more)

On the last day of 1966, Burlington’s Longmont local out of Denver trundles along north of Broomfield, as faithful and reliable as an old dog. Led by SD9s 326 and 363, cars for cement loading, p... (more)

With code line wire & black widows, an almost timeless scene occurs here on the Niles Canyon Railway. This is the first time these units have been paired up in 7 years.