Duluth,Missabe, And Iron Range Locomotives as of the early 1950's

Locomotives in service

 2-8-0 #194        Locomotives were easy to observe at Two Harbors  as the Rail yards are 

 2-8-0 #1219   bordered by a public park.  Good photography , however, was a bit more  

 4-6-2 #1107   difficult as plain clothes railroad men policed the area and immediately 

 2-8-2 #1306   apprehended anyone who even looked as though he was going to set foot on  

 2-10-2 #503   railroad property to get a closer shot.  They were very polite but very 

 2-10-4 #710   adamant about not allowing anyone to cross onto Railroad property.

 2-10-4 #711        Proctor was another matter.  As the public was not close by the 

 2-8-8-4 #220  round house, no one policed the area and if one wore bib overalls

 2-8-8-4 #222  (preferably reasonably worn and not spotlessly clean), and topped

 2-8-8-4 #227  the whole thing off with a hard hat, it made you more or less

 2-8-8-4 #233  invisible and you could move about at will, either inside or out in the 

 0-10-0 #91    yards where you could get whatever photo angle you wished.

Locomotives in Ready Storage

 0-10-2 #607              The Locomotives in ready storage were spotlessly maintained.

 2-8-2 #1323        Most of them looked as though they had just left the paint shop 

 2-10-2 #507        within the last 15 minutes.  The only things they lacked were the

 2-10-4 #711/#707 sights, sounds, smells, and warm feelings of a hot engine

 2-8-8-2 #209       ready to go.

Locomotives in Dead Storage

 0-8-0 #88           Locomotives in dead storage looked much like dead locomotives

 2-8-0 #193     on any other railroad.  Missing parts, parts hanging loose, and rust 

 4-6-2 #400     were evident on most of them.  Although most were obviously ready

 2-8-8-2 #202   for scrapping, it is possible that a few were waiting to be re-shopped.

 2-8-8-2 #207  

Locomotives on Display

 2-6-0, 3 Spot 3 Spot was prominately displayed at the Two Harbors Depot.

 2-8-0 #347    #347 was freshly painted at the Museum of Mining, Chishom, Minn.

 More on Steam Locomotives  

NOTE:  Copies of all of these photos, and locomotive photos of many other railroads
are available at sizes up to  24" long with heights proportional  Resolution and 
tones of photos will be of much better quality than is shown on screen.
If you have any comments, or wish further information, or have missing data about any 
of the engines shown that you would be willing to share, please E-Mail Larry Bohn at
 mollyandmick@lsol.net


You may wish to take a look at the following section of Great Northern 
Photos also by me.
http://www.prostar.com/web/gngoat/gn27000.htm


Richard Leonard's Steam Locomotive Archive
http://members.aol.com/rlsteam/


Missabe Range Hist. Soc.
http://www1.minn.net/~mspanton/mrhs.html

Other Railroad sites worth checking out 

 The NMRA Directory of World Wide Rail Sites at Dan Dawdy's Cyberspace
  World Railroad:
        http://www.rrhistorical.com/nmra/nmralink.html

 
Railroad and Railfan-Related Links (maintained by Mack Muir):

        http://www.ami.net/users/edisaurus/trains/train_links.htm

 
 Christopher Muller's RailServe Internet Railroad Directory:

        http://www.railserve.com/#switchyard


http://www.ami.net/users/edisaurus/trains/train_links.htm