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The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Control of the railway was acquired on May 10, 2004, by the ...
The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada. Much of the ore-bearing region lies alongside the range of granite hills formed by the Giants Range batholith. [ 1 ] These cherty iron ore deposits are Precambrian in the Vermilion Range and middle ...
Duluth and Iron Range Railroad. The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad (reporting mark D&IR) [1] was founded in 1874. In 1884, it ran the first main line train between Two Harbors and Soudan, Minnesota, a total distance of 68 miles. In July 1938, the railway merged with the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway to form the Duluth, Missabe and Iron ...
Duluth and Manitoba Railway: NP: 1884 1885 Duluth and Manitoba Railroad: Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway: DM&N DMN 1891 1937 Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway: Duluth, Mississippi River and Northern Railroad: DMRN GN: 1892 1899 Eastern Railway of Minnesota: Duluth and Northeastern Railroad: DNE 1898 2002 Cloquet Terminal Railroad ...
The collection includes the William Crooks, which became the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota in 1861, and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Number 227, a 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" locomotive that was among the largest steam engines to operate.
WGN #112 "Richard F. Gilberg" - Originally a mail and express car for the Duluth & Iron Range Railway (D&IR), rebuilt by the WGNRR as a club car, currently out of regular service; WGN #143 DM&IR Caboose - Originally Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Caboose #C-143, currently being resorted by the railroad and on display next to the Trego Depot
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway ( DM&N) was a railroad company in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was one of the earliest iron ore hauling railroads of the area, said to have built the largest iron ore docks in the world, and later was one of the constituent railroads in the merger that formed the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway .
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