DM&IR Part 4 - The Motive Power

SD-M 316 is now off the roster, the unit is former SD18 186.

SD-M 316 at Proctor Yard, September 2006

SD38DC 223 is also now off the roster. Proctor, September 2006

SD38AC 202

The Ex B&LE SD38AC was not renumbered into the DM&IR scheme, and was sold to NRE

Ex SP 9184 is a long way from Donner snowsheds.

DM&IR 419 is ex SP 9212, at Two Harbors, Minn.

Classification lights to number boards.

B&LE Tunnel Motor brethren at Pokegama Yard, Superior, Wisconsin.

This former Seaboard Coast Line SD45-2 was originally numbered 2046, was then  had two different numbers as a Seaboard System locomotive, and then was a CSX unit before becoming DM&IR 416. The unit is now retired.

Just think if the big radiators on SD45-2s had been flared!

The Duluth Missabe and Iron Range just might hold some kind of record for tonnage hauled with normally aspirated locomotives. Several generations of Duluth residents must have grown accustomed to the bark of SD9s, SD18s, and SD38s until the turbo-charged bass boom of rebuilt ex SP and CSX former 45s was heard on Proctor Hill. A lot of the SD40-3s have  already been retired as per the roster on the Missabe Railroad Historical Society website.