Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: missabe

Missabe Railroad locomotives 215 and 312 at Two Harbors yard, August, 1990. Taken during the Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention that summer.

The office building for the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Two Harbors ore docks are running off to the left.... Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad; Two Harbors, Minnesota, August, 1990.

Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad's yard at Two Harbors, Minnesota; early August, 1990. Better LARGE. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Two Harbors, Minnesota; August 1990. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

A bunch of DMIR SD-9s and similar locomotives, all lined up at Proctor Yard (above Duluth) on an August day in 1990. Camera: Throwaway Kodak panoramic

Wisconsin Central 598 and Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range 170 at Sault Ste. Marie, June, 1992. 170 is a perfectly typical Missabe SD-9, acquired by the railroad in 1959 and sold off-line in 1998. Fallen flag, falling flag. This photo was taken a few hundred yards from the Soo Locks and was the next I took after the Kinsman series; this is at Wisconsin Central's staging yard for building trains to cross the Saint Mary's River on the long railroad bridge. The DMIR's a physically compact system at the distant end of Lake Superior; this loco was a long way from Minnesota's Arrowhead region. At the time, WC was a new railway, and hadn't completed repainting the equipment it had inherited from the Soo Line--thus the box car in the background. A decade later, the Canadian National Railway has absorbed the Wisconsin Central, and is in the process of absorbing the Missabe. A sad time for Missabe's fans--a group which includes me. Sadder still for Missabe's employees in Duluth and Proctor....

One last photo from this roll of film: Paul Thayer from stem to stern at Missabe Railroad's Duluth dock; approximately 1990.

Since the long boom tends to interfere with the loading chutes, Thayer gets hers out of the way. And we get a close look.... Another photo from that tour I took of Duluth harbor around 1990. (Dunno who the people are.)

Oglebay Norton's Paul Thayer (now sailing as Manitowoc; once labelled Earl W. Oglebay and for a short period as just Earl W.), taking on aload near the end of Missabe Railway's half-mile long Duluth dock. Photo taken from a tour boat around 1990.

The Duluth docks of the Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad. Dock #5 is on the right, and Dock #6 is on the left. I no longer recall what the ship was, though American Mariner or H. Lee White would be good guesses--as would a couple of their fleetmates. Each dock is extends about a half mile into the harbor. Dock 5 is your classic, gravity-driven iron ore dock, while Dock 6 has been converted into a massive, modern, conveyor-driven shiploader. The shiploader permits the dock to service the 1000-foot ships which now dominate the trade. (I commented on this , from another perspective, a few days back.) This photo was taken in 1990 from the viewing platform on the DMIR property. The camera was a throwaway panoramic point-n-shoot. (Since the date on this photo is certainly correct, my recent Soo & Marquette photos are dated incorrectly. I need to figure that out.)