Cabooses on the end of two Burlington Northern trains pass MJ Tower on the south side of Superior, Wisconsin, on October 20, 1985. Waiting for all the BN action at the crossing to clear is Missabe’s Steelton Switch with three SD9s that is returning from interchanging cars with the Soo Line at their Stinson Yard. Why the southbound BN has three cabooses is unknown, but for now, they still reigned on the rear of Twin Ports’ trains. Today, the BN is BNSF and Missabe is CN, and the cabooses, diamond, tower and even the Highway 35 bridge (over the Missabe train) in the background are gone.
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I didn’t visit Minnesota’s Iron Range for quite a few years, missing out on the “Tunnel Motor” era on Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range. At least a trip to Ontario that included driving along Lake Superior netted something, as DM&IR SD40-3 No. 403 leads a Canadian National taconite ore empty hustling past milepost 6 north of Waldo not long after climbing the hill out of Two Harbors, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016. The conductor looks back over the train at a couple of other photographers at the Big Rock Road grade crossing. At the time, it was the last Tunnel Motor still in Missabe colors—I’ll take it…
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A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range train headed for the ore docks of Two Harbors rolls through Wales, Minnesota, on a sunny September 30, 1989.
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On September 25, 1994, Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range SD9 No. 166 leads a taconite ore train toward Proctor at Zim, Minnesota.
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Led by EMD SD38AC No. 203, a southbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range ore train is just south of Iron Junction, Minnesota, on September 9, 1989. These raw taconite trains operated between Thunderbird Mine at Eveleth and the Fairlane pellet plant at Forbes.
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