Duluth Missabe & Iron Range, The Last Days

[@tootired76]

Just frickin awesome!!

[@CVisionProductions1]

Thank you so much!!!

[@mccoy79productions66]

Nice Catch!

[@CVisionProductions1]

Thank you!

[@rajappanpk9569]

Great video conferencing system.

[@CVisionProductions1]

Glad you liked it!

[@fabriciobengozi9650]

Nice SD45T-2

[@CVisionProductions1]

Thank you! They are very unique locomotives.

[@petediaz8277]

Best railroad shot ever at 4:58. Thanks for the video.

[@dhdisprsmith2296]

Great show buddy! I sure do miss the DMIR! I'll never forget the day we spent up there in the bitter cold shooting it, I'm so glad we did!! Some of those scenes sent shivers down my old spine!!

[@CVisionProductions1]

Thank you Gordy! good memories of those cold days we went up there. Still can't believe my camera broke. Glad you came to my rescue!!!

[@frigginmustardtiger7740]

2:01 is 5 minutes away from my house. That trains running behind the McDonalds, Holiday, and the Country Inn which I think is now a Best Western. I love living in this area!

[@CVisionProductions1]

Nice!

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

I remember when those businesses weren’t there!

[@ChadsRailfanExperience]

I'm itching to get back up there in the winter time to shoot some action. Loved it up there

[@CVisionProductions1]

Even though it isn't DMIR maroon anymore, there are still some great power sets on these trains. Thank you for watching!

[@zachmalcolm6342]

2:49 is a DM&IR SD38 with a odd horn

[@lleppala]

brings tears to my eyes especcily i saw this happen in person

[@wisphotog]

Hey hey hey! Finally! Thanks for getting the upload right Chris! Nice DVD! Alex

[@michaelmcgann1814]

Thanks very much for the nice video

[@CVisionProductions1]

My pleasure! Thank you!

[@fafnir242]

You got IC 6071 in mainline action! Awesome!

[@jaymack6341]

best ore railroad

[@UPTurner]

Looks great Chris!!!

[@bigskypeach406]

THIS is the missabe I remember. good times

[@dbcooper692]

Sorry, I meant to write my great grandfather (Robert Murphy) was the mining superintendent at the Buhl open pit mine. He worked there around the turn of the century right around the 1890s through the 1930s. My grandfather and many of my uncles worked at that mine also!! My mother and her sisters grew up in Buhl and use to talk about it all the time. They said my grandfather would come home from work so dirty you could only see the whites of his eyes!! That must have been an awful job working outside in that terrible weather!!

[@CVisionProductions1]

Thank you for sharing your story!

[@AndrewNeilFalconer]

It was amazing that somebody drove a snowmobile over the railroad tracks without crashing.

[@marktufts7756]

great railroad

[@railenthusiast4830]

Great video! Looks like an SD38 leading at 1:55

[@staintedcards]

the opening shot reminds me of the sand cars that went too the Elmhurst stone quarry former CN@W now UP

[@kelvintorrence5994]

1,of their old,steam engine s is on display in Greenville pa. I just saw it but don't remember what model it is.

[@TheZeke1974]

The CHIN (chesapeake and Indiana)in Indiana runs an old DMIR loco.

[@richardneva618]

I love these movies of a gone age. So sad that all this business is now in China. I am from Duluth and I remember!

[@tegothecat1519]

i know how you feel, i lost my job after 33 years when the place i worked for (Syracuse China) moved to China

[@nathantrain1372]

I miss that DMIR P5:(

[@wiestbound]

I think so.

[@CrazyKaboose]

I think the ILSX owns one of there locos it runs on the saint croix valley on the former northern pacific route

[@Blaydelk]

Can someone tell me about taconite pellets? I have found hard heavy ones on the RR road tracks (purpleish black) and a pile of light weight (orange, rusty, slightly bigger) ones at a lake. Do the pellets retain their shape after the iron has been extracted and they become slag? I would think the slag would be glassy chunks but these puffy orange pellets seem to be low in iron content, 4% is plenty to account for the orange color in an oxidation environment.

[@privatepyle2520]

The pellets actually contain very high concentrations of iron, greater than raw iron ore itself. The taconite ore is crushed and then the iron is extracted with magnets, before being formed into pellets. As a result, iron does not need to be extracted from the pellets and they retain their shape and do not become slag. These pellets are what goes directly into the blast furnaces.

[@dennisb9157]

If my memory serves me correctly, didn't the DM&IR have ALCOs?

[@whiteknightcat]

They had several Alco-built steam locomotives but in the diesel era, they only rostered four. These were second-hand UP C630's 2900, 2902, 2903, and 2904 which were re-numbered by deleting the leading 2 in the numbers. They were received in 1973, were never re-painted, and were re-sold after only three years. Aside from those, the DMIR had an all-EMD fleet, either original or second-hand.

[@dbcooper692]

my great grand father was in charge of the buhl around the turn of the century for 25 years

[@donkeyballs7860]

My great grandfather was a pimp wit a 8 inch limp

[@arlingtontrains7]

prety cool video :D

[@bobgallo2178]

When they were used, what type of cabooses did they use? Same as the B&LE(bay window)?

[@whiteknightcat]

A variety of cupola type cabooses were used. Use Google image search with the term DM&IR caboose to find pictures, or search rrpicturearchives.net

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

I noticed on the map there's a place called 'Wolf'.. is that a whistle stop, or a town?

[@CVisionProductions1]

As the title suggests, it is called "The Last Days", which means 2004 before the purchase by CN. No Yellowstones in this show.

[@lleppala]

2:54 been there by my cosins house

[@duluthbro]

Say, in the first few clips, are those SD45s leading?

[@scpiedmontvideoproductions878]

Rbsanford yes! And SD 40T_2s

[@yardlet6]

Saw the title and was expecting Yellowstones. Guess not.

[@heatherfinch3044]

Mean cn that was my favorite railroad 😡😡😡😡😡