MISSABE T-BIRDS Cable Cars from Pueblo to Minturn

from Pueblo to Minturn

BNSF traffic mixes with the UP via trackage rights to Klamath Falls making for a nice variety of power including SD40-2's still in Cascade Green

photographed between O'Fallons and Gibbon Junction

Historical information is included up to and beyond the merger of UP and SP

Louis painted Alco RS-1 on the Boone and Scenic Valley railroad

MISSABE T-BIRDS Cable Cars from Pueblo to MinturnIN STOCK AND SHIPPING! See Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad action in scenic Northeastern Minnesota. This program features the DM&IR's crude ore trains that traveled from the Thunderbird open pit mines to the Fairlane Taconite Plant at Forbes. Known as T Birds, these crude ore shuttles used classic DM&IR ore cars and usually operated two trains at a time. You'll see exciting runbys with vintage Missabe diesel power consisting of highhood SD9's,