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. |
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.