Missabe Railway DMIR High-Hoods on Proctor Hill | Classic EMD SD-9 and SD-18 Locomotives

Classic Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railroad DM&IR High-Hood EMD SD9 and EMD SD18's along with a rebuilt Missabe SD-M descending and climbing Proctor Hill. I estimate this video to have been shot around 1990-91.
Missabe Railway DMIR High Hoods on Proctor Hill | Iron Ore | Classic EMD SD-9 and SD-18 Locomotives
00:00 Descending Proctor Hill - DMIR 189/SD-18
01:33 Descending at Sprit Mountain - DMIR 189, DMIR 153/SD-9, DMIR 310/SM-M
03:32 Climbing Proctor Hill at Spirit Mountain - DMIR 175/SD-18, DMIR 189, DMIR 164/SD-9
07:28 Climbing Proctor Hill
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The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that hauls 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 Canadian National Railway (CN) when it purchased the assets of Great Lakes Transportation.
The DM&IR was formed by the merger in 1937 of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) and the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway. The following year, the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road (D&IR) and Interstate Transfer Railway were added. All of these had been leased by the DM&N since 1930.
The D&IR was formed in 1874 by Charlemagne Tower to haul iron ore from the Minnesota Iron Co. in Tower, Minnesota, to the new Lake Superior port of Two Harbors, Minnesota. On July 31, 1884, the D&IR carried its first ore shipment from the Soudan Mine. In 1887, the D&IR was acquired by Illinois Steel Company, which itself became part of the new United States Steel Corporation (USS) in 1901.
After high-grade Mesabi iron ore was discovered near Mountain Iron, Minnesota by the Seven Iron Men, the D&IR was asked to build a branch line to serve this area, but declined. So in 1891, the Merritts incorporated the DM&N, which shipped its first load of iron ore to Superior, Wisconsin, in October 1892. The following year, the Merritts expanded the DM&N by laying track to Duluth, Minnesota, where they built an ore dock. But this expansion left the Merritts on shaky financial ground, and in 1894, John D. Rockefeller gained control of the railway. In 1901, Rockefeller sold the DM&N to USS.
From 1901 to 1938, the two railways were owned by USS and operated separately. Total ore hauled by the two railroads peaked in 1929 at 27.8 million tons (long tons of 2240 lbs) and dropped to 1.5 million tons in 1932.

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.

[@MNRails]

Thank you!

[@johnwinter8273]

Love those old units cranking their guts out pulling heavy iron ore. 👍x's 10!

[@OsborneMcclintic]

thank you! i grew up there.. as a kid i rode those trains...we lived on boundry ave...24 dewberry ln. proctor!

[@odva546]

Beautiful... this is a video relic. It takes me back to my childhood here in Venezuela. The trains were exactly the same, in the town of El pao in the State of Boñívar, Venezuela.
Hermosisimo... esta es una relíquia de video. me transporta a mi infancia acá en Venezuela. Los trenes eran exactamente iguales, en la poblacion de El pao en el Estado Boñívar Venezuela.

[@nickpopovich1213]

I worked on repairing the dual 8 mile track ,after high School graduation with approximately two hundred other men ,during the steel strike 1952.
The ore shipping season prevented work on this track due to the constant use ,from Proctor to the ore docks

[@MNRails]

Cool!

[@jdrailfan5424]

Awesome

[@MNRails]

Thank you!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Very cool video.

[@MNRails]

Thanks!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

@@MNRails You are very welcome.

[@vivekshreeni7897]

Were all the high hood sd9 and sd18s seen in this video rebuilt with 645 power packs or had 567 engines

[@MNRails]

I don't the answer to that unfortunately.