West Duluth; Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; Foundation showing Sheet Piling; construction of number 6 dock; winter; snow; ore dock; tug boat; crane; railroad tracks; piling foundation; pile driver; June 21, 1917; photograph number 28
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
Duluth Missabe and Northern Railroad; West Duluth Foundation showing Piers of no. 6 dock construction; steam equipment; workers; workmen; ore dock; railroad tracks; July 24, 1917; photograph number 33; forms; concrete structures; barges
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Duluth, Kathryn A. Martin Library, Northeast Minnesota Historical Collections
View looking south into the Proctor Yard with D.M. & I.R. steam locomotive 233 pulling a loaded ore train. Another Yellowstone is pulling a loaded train into the yard off of the scale.
Roster photograph of D.M. & I.R. 325, Pittsburgh, 2-8-0, Consolidation type outside the Proctor, Minnesota Roundhouse. Also included are portions of 1205, 84 and a Yellowstone. Photograph was taken from the overhead walkway across the Proctor Yard.
Elevated view of the D.M. & I.R. ore steaming operation at Two Harbors with loaded and empty cars in the yards. Also in view are several steam engines switching cars and in the distance the "Edna G" is assisting a lake freighter in the harbor.
Roster photograph of D.M. & I.R. Business car "Northland" at Duluth, Minnesota. Viewed from the front end, coupled. Enger tower is in the far background.
D.M. & I.R. two car passenger train with steam locomotive 402 parked by the Duluth Union Depot. This train is headed for Two Harbors and the eastern Iron Range.
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.
A view of the D.M. & I.R. Steelton, Minnesota Yard looking North, from the coaling tower. In this scene are the depot, a steam engine taking on water, a steam engine pulling a string of empty ore cars, the yard tracks and in the distant right the United States Steel Duluth Works.
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 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.
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 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."
Photograph of D. & I. R. showing an unknown steam locomotive turned over after a collision at MP 22 just west of Larsmont. Dated August 4, 1900 with officials and workers attending.
Nine female railroad workers standing on the running boards of D.M. & I.R. Number 230 at Two Harbors in May 1943. The employees are: Elsie Parent, Cunningham, Cullen, Mae Montague, unknown, Bjorum, Doris Degestedt, Melander, and Shirley Entzion.
A D.M. & I.R. passenger train headed for Ely, MN lead by steam locomotive #1107 is stopped at Endion Depot. A Railway Express truck is backed up to a mail car for loading/unloading.
Six female railroad workers in the cab and on the steps of D.M. & I.R. Number 222 at Two Harbors in May 1943. Lola Olson Jacobson,Irene Holmes, Sally Peterson, Caroline Welk, Imby Fredson & Irene Stenberg
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 #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.