Cooling Off
A nice pair of high-hood Missabe units lead empty BN hoppers back to Keenan on February 24, 1996. At first I thought these were Laskin empties but the train isn't coming off the Iron Range Division but rather from Wolf. The cars could be coming back from Virginia's municipal plant located near the DW&P depot.
The end of the high-hood era was near as new 400-series SD40-3s would make the old veterans surplus. Trailing SD18 No. 189 is "Heritage" 129, an SD9 the DM&IR repainted back into its as-delivered scheme in 1990 (before heritage units became popular). It would end up being sent to sister railroad Birmingham Southern a few months after this shot was made and eventually reduced to a shell and scrapped in 2013.
Number 189 was sold to Diesel Locomotive Services in 1998 becoming DLSX 189 in their lease fleet. At last report it was on the Bighorn Divide & Wyoming as their number 2012 (Bonneville, WY).
Cooling Off
A nice pair of high-hood Missabe units lead empty BN hoppers back to Keenan on February 24, 1996. At first I thought these were Laskin empties but the train isn't coming off the Iron Range Division but rather from Wolf. The cars could be coming back from Virginia's municipal plant located near the DW&P depot.
The end of the high-hood era was near as new 400-series SD40-3s would make the old veterans surplus. Trailing SD18 No. 189 is "Heritage" 129, an SD9 the DM&IR repainted back into its as-delivered scheme in 1990 (before heritage units became popular). It would end up being sent to sister railroad Birmingham Southern a few months after this shot was made and eventually reduced to a shell and scrapped in 2013.
Number 189 was sold to Diesel Locomotive Services in 1998 becoming DLSX 189 in their lease fleet. At last report it was on the Bighorn Divide & Wyoming as their number 2012 (Bonneville, WY).