DMIR 406 Out of Highland
Enough reminiscing about the extreme cold that isn't really my thing. Let's go back to warm sunshine on the Missabe's Iron Range Division in 2003. Was a beautiful May day, with pairs of clean maroon tunnel motors all day long.
Here the DM&IR standard I/D train of two SD40-3s have just weighed out and departed Highland, passing Lauren, MN on the gorgeous evening of May 31, 2003. DMIR 406 and 409 lead the 116 cars of Minntac pellets starting to head down the grade on their last leg, 13 miles from Two Harbors.
While we knew this was too good to last (the CN takeover would be announced five months in the future), I never would have predicted back then that these same two tunnel motors would last into 2019 still hauling Minnesota iron ore!
DMIR 406 Out of Highland
Enough reminiscing about the extreme cold that isn't really my thing. Let's go back to warm sunshine on the Missabe's Iron Range Division in 2003. Was a beautiful May day, with pairs of clean maroon tunnel motors all day long.
Here the DM&IR standard I/D train of two SD40-3s have just weighed out and departed Highland, passing Lauren, MN on the gorgeous evening of May 31, 2003. DMIR 406 and 409 lead the 116 cars of Minntac pellets starting to head down the grade on their last leg, 13 miles from Two Harbors.
While we knew this was too good to last (the CN takeover would be announced five months in the future), I never would have predicted back then that these same two tunnel motors would last into 2019 still hauling Minnesota iron ore!