Two Harbors 1990

Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad; Two Harbors, Minnesota, August, 1990.

Missabe Railroad's tug, Edna G, docked in retirement next to the ore dock she long helped service at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Two Harbors Lighthouse is barely visible out near the end of the spit of land. Posted for Bulldog1 . Hi, Suzy! Taken in 1990 with my Minolta Freedom 100. Further proof that it's possible to take fine photographs with inexpensive cameras. This photo used to be on another site. New, far better, scan posted May 20, 2006.

Duluth, Missabe, & Iron Range Railroad's yard at Two Harbors, Minnesota; early August, 1990. Better LARGE. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Two Harbors, Minnesota; August 1990. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

The office building for the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Two Harbors ore docks are running off to the left.... Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Best LARGE! DMIR 307, ready to push around a string of ore jennies at Two Harbors yard in August of 1990. She attracted a bunch of folks with cameras; I see seven, not counting m'self and anyone else who was up on the hill with me. Camera: Minolta Freedom 100

Missabe Railroad locomotives 215 and 312 at Two Harbors yard, August, 1990. Taken during the Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention that summer.

312 was originally DMIR 181, an SD-18 built by GM's Electromotive Division in 1960; she was rebuilt in 1989 into what the Missabe Road called an SD-M and renumbered at that time. The most obvious mark of an SD-M conversion was the low nose; all SD-9s & SD-18s arrived online as high nose locomotives. The other identifiable locomotives in this photo are 314--a similar backstory, and you'll see more of her--and 203, an SD38AC. The 312 was scrapped in 2002. Yeah, I know this set of notes jargon-infested. It's that railfan thing . --------------------- I plan to show a couple more photos of this loco before we do some more exploring around Two Harbors Yard.... Shot with my Minolta Freedom 100 in 1990; outing with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

That's what Missabe did. Folks call the dirt "ore," but it's dirt all the same. Still what they haul, actually, but now they're a division of CN. Locomotive 312 , again; up close and personal. Shot with m' Freedom 100; 1990 at Two Harbors, Minnesota.