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Viewing Album:  Lake Superior Railroad Museum
 
By:Mark Muraski
Dates:8/16/2007 - 6/13/2008
Album Info:Photos of some the pieces in the museum's collection. Thanks to the museum for the information about thq photos.
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NP 1
Title:  NP 1
Description:  The first locomotive to serve on the Northern Pacific Railway. Built in 1870.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:21:02 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  NP 1(0-4-0T)
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MSSX 7
Title:  MSSX 7
Description:  Minnesota Steel Company locomotive #7. Spent its entire career working at the US Steel plant in Morgan Park, about 6 miles south of the depot in Duluth. Built in 1915.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:22:23 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  MSSX 7(0-4-0T)
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Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description:  The William Crooks. First steam locomotive to run in Minnesota, and first locomitive of the St.Paul & Pacific Railroad, first railroad in the state. Built in 1861.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:22:50 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Views:  208   Comments: 1
DMIR 193
Title:  DMIR 193
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:23:07 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  DMIR 193(SD18)
Views:  660   Comments: 1
DNM 14
Title:  DNM 14
Description:  Built in 1913. The last locomotive to be used for logging service in Minnesota.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:23:32 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  DNM 14(2-8-2)
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WC 7495
Title:  WC 7495
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:23:50 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  WC 7495(SD45)
Views:  564   Comments: 3
OIMX 900
Title:  OIMX 900
Description:  No. 900 was built by the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, New York in 1940. It is believed to be the first diesel-electric locomotive used on the Mesabi Range.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:24:55 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  OIM 900(HH1000)
Views:  875   Comments: 1
WC 7495
Title:  WC 7495
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:25:31 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  WC 7495(SD45)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
BN D-161
Title:  BN D-161
Description:  Originally built as a steam-powered wrecker by Bucyrus Erie in 1915, the No. 161 was modernized with a diesel engine in 1960.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:27:26 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  601   Comments: 0
MILW 10200
Title:  MILW 10200
Description:  Two monster engines side-by-side. No. 10200 was the first of 42 electric locomotives delivered by General Electric to the Road beginning in 1915, the year it was built, when the Milwaukee electrified operations across five mountain ranges in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. No. 227 was one of 18 yellowstone-type locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Missabe Road in 1941
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:28:04 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  MILW 10200(Boxcab) DMIR 227(2-8-8-4)
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GN X452
Title:  GN X452
Description:  Built by Great Northerns St. Cloud shops in November, 1920.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:28:29 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  316   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description:  Built in 1893. Originally a four-wheel bobber, it was rebuilt to double truck design in 1910.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:29:09 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Views:  139   Comments: 0
SOO 2500
Title:  SOO 2500
Description:  No. 2500 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in November, 1949, as a demonstrator unit. It was then taken on a sales promotion tour. Soo Line was so impressed that it purchased the demonstrator unit. The No. 2500 pulled The Laker passenger train for the Soo Line (now CP Rail) from Duluth to southern Wisconsin and Chicago.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:29:31 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  SOO 2500(FP7A)
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SOO 99017
Title:  SOO 99017
Description:  Constructed in 1886 for the Wisconsin Central.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:29:56 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories:  RollingStock
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Hanna Iron Mining Company Electric Locomotive No. 307
Title:  Hanna Iron Mining Company Electric Locomotive No. 307
Description:  No. 307, constructed by General Electric in 1928, is typical of the many 60-ton steeple- cab electric locomotives formerly used in mining and industrial railroad operations. It is the last electric locomotive that operated on the Mesabi Range. Built originally for use at Hannas Wabigon Mine at Buhl, Minnesota, it later worked on the Mesabi Chief Washing Plant haulage line near Keewatin.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:30:24 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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NP 2435
Title:  NP 2435
Description:  Constructed in 1907 by Brooks Works of the American Locomotive Company. No. 2435 ended her days on the Northern Pacific in 1954 having been demoted to switching and transfer duties. Exhibited for many years at the Duluth Zoo, it was donated to the museum by the City of Duluth in 1978.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:31:22 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
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Locomotives:  NP 2435(2-6-2)
Views:  992   Comments: 1
DMIR C-9
Title:  DMIR C-9
Description:  Constructed for the Duluth, Missabe and Northern in 1893 by the Duluth Car Manufacturing Company. Caboose No. 9 spent most of its 81-year life tagging on the end of commercial freight trains and in yard service.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 10/31/2007 3:55:43 PM
Location:  Duluth, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  225   Comments: 0

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