Two men are posed by the front of a Chicago and North Western train engine. A hand operated turntable is visible in the rear. A wooden pilot (cow catcher) is attached to the front of the engine. The man in dark clothes on the right is Joe Bell.
Decorated locomotive for an employee picnic with Northern Pacific Railroad Shops roundhouse in Brainerd in the background. Banner says COME FOR FUN. The Roundhouse was demolished in the 1960s.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 1223, pulling passenger car W55. Train is operating as Proctor Jitney (a jitney is a vehicle that carries passengers for a low fare), between the roundhouse and the back shop.
A D.M. & I.R. empty pellet train returning from Duluth to Proctor on the curve at Spirit Mountain, Minnesota. Pulled by diesel locomotives #191, 171 & 184.
A D.M. & I.R. train loaded with limestone departing Missabe Jct in Duluth headed for Proctor. Diesel locomotives 134, 144 & 143 pulling about 40 cars. I-35 is in the background.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 234 pulling loaded ore cars on a slightly curved double track with house or farm in the distance. This is a Baldwin 2-8-8-4, Mallet or Yellowstone type.
Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway was formed by the merger of the Duluth and Iron Range Railway (D&IR) and Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) in 1938. It was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes port of Duluth, Minnesota, and Two Harbors, Minnesota. DM&IR train is shown leaving Proctor, Minnesota.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive number 221 passing through the Proctor Yard with a train of empty ore cars. In the background are loaded ore cars with varied colors of red ore.
Roster photograph of a clean D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 500. This is a Baldwin 2-10-2, Santa Fe type. The large Proctor, Minnesota coal dock is in the background.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 236 on the bridge crossing over the Lakefront Line between Two Harbors and Duluth. The train is departing Two Harbors with empty ore cars.
D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive #226 pulling empty ore cars in the Proctor, MN Yard. Coaling Tower, deadlined steam locomotives, loaded ore cars and new diesel locomotives are in the background.
A scene with the D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 227 passing the Allen Junction Depot with a train of loaded ore cars. Taken from the coaling tower with the yard miscellaneous out-buildings in the background.
D. M. & N. Number 505 pulling a loaded ore train over the scale in Proctor. Viewed from the St Louis River Road bridge. Used on page 100 of F. A. King's "The Missabe Road."
Three men are pictured with railroad steam engine 716 at Thief River Falls, Minnesota. They are Fred Gram, William Churchill (1881-1965), and Peter C. Peterson (1881-1949).
Engine on the Minnesota and International railroad bridge over the Battle River. Claude Ritchie is the engineer, Art Setterholm is the fireman, John Vanhouse, is the brakeman and Roy Rice is the pilot. (description from,"The Bemidji Area Looking Back" Pediment Publishing, 2004).
First train into Brainerd after a February snowstorm. It took three days for the train to travel from International Falls to Brainerd. M & I Locomotive Number 6.