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 236 on the bridge crossing over the Lakefront Line between Two Harbors and Duluth. The train is departing Two Harbors with empty ore cars.
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. & 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."
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.
Train engine number 1 of the Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad . Guy Otis an engineer from Bigelow is one of the men in the photograph.
Panoramic view of an operating Winston-Dear Company 0-6-0 steam locomotive number 114 in a winter scene drawing several Winston-Dear Company ore cars at may be a switch junction at an unknown location. A non operating steam locomotive is near the end of the line of ore cars. At right are several empty open hopper cars idle on the tracks.
The William Crooks was the first locomotive to operate in Minnesota. Constructed in 1861, it provided service a year later for the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, a company that eventually became part of the Great Northern Railway. James J. Hill had the locomotive pull his personal train. It now resides in a static display at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. Minnesota. Engineer Herschell Hudgens, Jr. and three unidentified people shown.
The William Crooks was the first locomotive to operate in Minnesota. Constructed in 1861, it arrived on a river barge in Saint Paul. It provided service in 1862 for the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, a company that eventually became part of the Great Northern Railway. The engine is pulling a Saint Paul and Pacific baggage car and passenger car. It ran on the eleven miles of track between Saint Paul and Saint Anthony (now Minneapolis). Eventually, James J. Hill used the locomotive to pull his personal train. It now resides in a static display at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota.
The William Crooks was the first locomotive to operate in Minnesota. Constructed in 1861, it first provided service a year later for the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, a company that eventually became part of the Great Northern Railway. James J. Hill had the locomotive pull his personal train. William Crooks was displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair and in 1948 at the Chicago Railroad Fair. It was displayed for some time at the Saint Paul Union Depot before being put in a static display at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, in Duluth, Minnesota.
View of the William Crooks Locomotive, the first railroad engine in Minnesota. Left to right, #2 Wm. E Litchfield,#3 Col. Wm. Crooks (namesake for the locomotive). #4 Mr. Willmar, #5 Charles A. F. Morris (namesake for Morris, MN).
Soo Line Railroad Locomotive 504 with workmen, Ole T. Lee (1849-1926), John Lurth, Theodore Nelson (1866-1952), Michael Padden (1859-1939), John Bernath (1834-1908), and Cassius A. Sholes (1858-1960).
Railroad engine number 393 with crew in Brainerd. Those observing include Al Boileau in center and Orville Hazuka at right. Same men as in photograph r1-11. Please click the link to view a related image: http://reflections.mndigital.org/u?/cwc,129
Oliver Iron Mining Company train, engine #308. The location of this photograph is unknown; but the Iron Range includes parts of the following Minnesota counties: Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis.
Northern Pacific Railway Transcontinental Train, the first northern transcontinental train, as it appeared in September, 1883, enroute from Saint Paul to Gold Creek, Montana, where on September 8 the Northern Pacific's last spike was driven. Aboard this train were President Henry Villard of the Northern Pacific, General U.S. Grant, and other dignitaries of the United State and foreign countries. Following the spike driving ceremonies, the train proceeded to Portland, Oregon.