DM&IR SD38AC 202 leads a Thunderbird crude ore train through Iron Junction circa 1980. MRHS Collection. 

A roundhouse worker washes down a Yellowstone at Two Harbors in preparation for another trip to the Iron Range. During World War II, many women worked on the DM&IR filling vacancies left behind by employees leaving for the war effort overseas. MRHS Archives 

A C&NW crew with a UP power set prepares to couple onto a loaded all-rail taconite train at Saunders on the Interstate Branch during March 1984. DM&IR had pulled the train clear of the switch after dropping their caboose, C-225, west of the junction. The ore train is running from Minntac to Geneva Steel in Utah by way of C&NW and UP.