DMIR 404 South CSX loads, Nopeming Jct, Minn; Feb 4, 1996_
Progression of Power. After various demonstration tours of units of the four major builders at the time - ALCo, Baldwin, EMD and Fairbanks-Morse - dieselization of the Missabe started with EMD SW9 switchers and SD9 road units. SD9s began arriving in 1956 and were later supplemented with SD18s in 1960. Missabe's last purchase of diesels were twenty rebuilt SD40-3 units that started arriving the property in January 1996. Here an SD9 sandwiched between a pair Tunnel Motor rebuilds starts down the 1.8% grade of Steelton Hill on the Spirit Lake / Interstate Branch.
DMIR 404 South CSX loads, Nopeming Jct, Minn; Feb 4, 1996_
Progression of Power. After various demonstration tours of units of the four major builders at the time - ALCo, Baldwin, EMD and Fairbanks-Morse - dieselization of the Missabe started with EMD SW9 switchers and SD9 road units. SD9s began arriving in 1956 and were later supplemented with SD18s in 1960. Missabe's last purchase of diesels were twenty rebuilt SD40-3 units that started arriving the property in January 1996. Here an SD9 sandwiched between a pair Tunnel Motor rebuilds starts down the 1.8% grade of Steelton Hill on the Spirit Lake / Interstate Branch.