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Missabe
One of the most famous Minnesota
Railroads... Slowly fading to its new CN owners it was legendary all the way to
its last day in early May 2004...
Plenty more coming soon on this
amazing railroad...
SD38-2 217 leads a limestone train up Proctor Hill in 2000 -
Dave Schauer.
Below - photos of each class of locomotive operating
at the CN takeover in May 2004 [all seen in Proctor on May 15
2004]
SD38
SD45-2
SD45T-2 [aka SD40-3]
SDM
The orange boxes found on the trucks below
the cab of many locos are Fred Beds - places to leave un-used Fred/EOT devices
so crews don't have to lug them into the cabs... Andy Inserra
photos
Missabe units can often been seen on BNSF paying
back horsepower hours - here is a SD45T-2 doign that on Sept 5 2004 seen laying
over at Northtown Yard in Mpls by Scott Kotnour
SDM #308
seen in Keenen - Bob Hart photo
Dave Schauer took this photo of their test cars
in their variety of paint schemes...
The track cleaner! We have no idea
how it works [magnetic?] but somehow it pulls loose tac pellets up along the
right of way and loads them into the side dump car it pulls with it. Seen on
Nov 21 2004 - Dave Schauer photo
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