Follow closely behind a CN freight was this SPEM job with DMIR 861 and 185. A pair of units wasn't enough to get the whole train up Steelton Hill so this power had about 55 empties as they slugged... (more)
In the mid-1990s the big U.S. Steel roads swapped a number of units with the Missabe getting SD38s from the B&LE and EJ&E and those roads receiving older DM&IR SD-Ms and SD18/SD9s. The "new" DM&IR... (more)
B&LE units roaming the DM&IR has been going on for a long time. This 1996 shot of the afternoon limestone getting ready to depart Proctor has Ex B&LE 861 leading Ex EJ&E 222 and DM&IR 315.
DMIR 861 arrives at Trout Lake after making a Newberry turn on a bright February afternoon. DMIR units were common on WC paying back HP hours and also on winter time ore trains from Steelton to Es... (more)
DM&IR 861, 185 head up the hill between Nopeming Jct. and Steelton with the first half of a SPEM that had been received from WC at Steelton yard.