Copyright © 2006–2020, Some rights reserved. Iron ore is heavy, and combined with the railroads steep grades, made transporting this material from the mines to the Great Lakes a tricky task and required … The Mallet No. The Northern Pacific Railway was the first railroad to order a 2-8-8-4. Seventy-two Yellowstone-type locomotives were built for four U.S. railroads. Passenger service on the Missabe division ended in 1957 and completely ceased system-wide in 1961.
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227 was one of 18 yellowstone-type locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Missabe Road during World War II, years 1941 and 1943.
They were the most powerful Yellowstones built, producing 140,000 lbf (620 kN) of tractive effort, and had the most weight on drivers so that they were less prone to slipping.
The need for a larger, coal-burning firebox and a longer, all-weather cab led to the use of a four-wheel trailing truck, giving them the "Yellowstone" wheel arrangement. Map of the DM&IR. The Rio Grande returned the Yellowstones after air-brake failure caused No.
224 to wreck on the Fireclay Loop. Iron ore is heavy and the DM&IR operated long trains of ore cars, requiring maximum power.
Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Yellowstone Mallet #229 Marker 1. This arrangement earned them the name "Yellowstones" and were the most powerful engines of this type, producing 140,000 lbf of tractive effort. The type was generally named the Yellowstone, a name given it by the first owner, the Northern Pacific Railway, whose lines run near Yellowstone National Park.
Steam locomotives were rather expensive to operate, and the later proven diesel locomotives were a natural replacement, so the No. The DM&IR matched that contribution, performed all restoration, and donated the locomotive to the Museum.
Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Yellowstone Mallet #229. . The engine weighed 627,000 pounds (284 t) while the tender weighed 328,000 pounds (149 t) for a combined 1,010,700 pounds (458.4 t). Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Yellowstone Mallet #229 Marker 3, 4.
As a contrast, No. The following year, the Merritts expanded the DM&N by laying track to Duluth, Minnesota, where they built an ore dock. 1 "Minnetonka".
Soviet Russia constructed two 2-8-8-4 locomotives at the Kolomna Locomotive Works. Clare shops in Baltimore, Maryland, the B&O took delivery of 30 class EM-1 Yellowstones in 1944 and 1945, the largest number and the smallest of this type built by Baldwin as well as the most modern. They were equipped with the newest technology including the Worthington feedwater heater, superheater with front-end throttle, Cyclone front end, thermic syphons, a lateral cushioning device in the front pair of drivers on both engines and the front wheels and the trailing truck, as well as roller bearings on all axles, engine and tender, which gave them the reputation of "yard creepers", because three men could move one on a level track with the cylinder cocks open. 659, almost made it to preservation. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Locomotive #3, Ore Car #251, 1884 & Bobber Caboose #22 (#52), 1893, Hand Car, Velocipede, Sleigh, Station Wagon, The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway, Lake County Historical Society Depot Museum. 227 was retired in 1960. 227 had a pulling power of 30 times that of the WILLIAM CROOKS. The engines began fading into obscurity as dieselization took hold.
224 is a class M-3 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1941 for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Ridge railroad, one of the primary iron ore hauling railroads in Minnesota. [3][page needed], A visitor walks next to the wheels of a DM&IR Yellowstone locomotive, Rolling stock of former Soviet Union countries, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Web Site of ToyTrains1 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Steam Locomotives, "Is This Monster Locomotive a HE or SHE? This enormous engine was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1941 for the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Ridge railroad, one of the primary iron ore hauling railroads in Minnesota. The following year, the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road (D&IR) and Interstate Transfer Railway were added. They were operated by the Baltimore and Ohio, Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, and Duluth Missabe & Iron Range. A 2-8-8-4 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation, has two leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.
The DM&IR was formed by the merger in 1937 of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) and the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway. Well-known photographer and Cumberland, MD, native William P. Price captured on still pictures and 8mm films, the EM-1s on the east side of Sand Patch pulling heavy trains with two of the B&O's 2-10-2 class S1 and S1a Big Sixes on the rear as helpers dispatched from Hyndman, PA. Near the end of steam they were all sent out to Fairmont and Wheeling, West Virginia, and Lorain, Ohio, with lake-bound coal trains as well as runs between Willard, OH and Garrett, Indiana, until the B&O started to retire them in 1957, and almost all of them were scrapped. Lima Locomotive Works built 12 AC-9 class locomotives in 1939; they had skyline casings with striped pilots. The first eight were delivered in 1941 and performed beyond the DM&IR's expectations, who ordered another ten of these engines in 1943. Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Yellowstone Mallet #229.
None were saved. When working at full power, it could consume some 10 to 12 tons of coal an hour and evaporate water into steam at the astounding rate of 12,000 gallons per hour. The DM&IR donated #225 to the city of Proctor on the 25th of March, 1963, and put on display at Charles E Carlson Park, where it remains today. Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Yellowstone Mallet #229 and Markers, 5. (For greater speeds, the Union Pacific Railroad chose a four-wheel leading truck and drivers of 68 inches (1.73 m) for its Big Boy 4-8-8-4 class.). The boiler rests on a sliding plate, which transfers part of the weight to the front engine. In late 2003, the Blackstone Group agreed to sell GLT to Canadian National Railway and the purchase was completed on May 10, 2004. Lake Superior Railroad Museum&North Shore Scenic Railroad Wiki, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Baggage/Coach No. All of these had been leased by the DM&N since 1930. The first locomotive carried partial casings over the boiler and smokebox typical of the 1950s. Total ore hauled by the two railroads peaked in 1929 at 27.8 million tons (long tons of 2240 lbs) and dropped to 1.5 million tons in 1932. These were the P38 Class numbers P38.001 and P38.002. [2][page needed].
Only 72 Yellowstone locomotives were ever built in the U.S. All Yellowstones had fairly small drivers of 63 to 64 inches (1.60 to 1.63 m). The D&IR was formed in 1874 by Charlemagne Tower to haul iron ore from the Minnesota Iron Co. in Tower, Minnesota, to the new Lake Superior port of Two Harbors, Minnesota. The passage of the amendment accelerated the creation of the taconite mining industry in Northern Minnesota. DM&IR No.
No. At first, they burned coal but were later converted to oil. DULUTH, MISSABE, AND IRON RANGE RAILWAY: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society, List of United States railroads by political division, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duluth,_Missabe_and_Iron_Range_Railway&oldid=986268741, Former Class I railroads in the United States, Former regional railroads in the United States, Predecessors of the Canadian National Railway, Transportation in Douglas County, Wisconsin, Transportation in St. Louis County, Minnesota, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2009, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 October 2020, at 20:18. However, there was a mix-up in communication, regarding the locomotive's status, the salvage crew scrapped No.
One is on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
Filling the tender took 26 tons of coal and 25,000 gallons of water.
7600 for railfan trips.
But this expansion left the Merritts on shaky financial ground, and in 1894, John D. Rockefeller gained control of the railway.
Solid lines are track still in use; dotted lines are abandoned track.
229 at Two Harbors.
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225 is a class M-3 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" type steam locomotive currently on static display at Charles E. Carlson Park.
B&O's president, Roy B. Since the EM-1s had roller bearings throughout, they also handled mail and express trains, replacing two B&O class T-3 4-8-2 Mountains. Of the eighteen built, three survive and are on display in Minnesota: No. As well as the Yellowstones, the DM&IR had heavy 2-8-8-2 articulated's (also Class M), 2-8-2 Mikados, 2-10-2 Santa Fe's and eventually 2-10-4 Texas types from B&LE. 227 at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth and No.
While several Midwestern carriers moved iron ore in some capacity only the Missabe Road did so on a grand scale along a condensed network of just a few hundred miles. https://locomotive.fandom.com/wiki/Duluth,_Missabe_%26_Iron_Range_No._224?oldid=84667. They had the largest boilers ever used on a narrow-gauge Mallet. 225 is a class M-3 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" type steam locomotive currently on static display at Charles E. Carlson Park.
7600 for railfan trips mostly between Cumberland, MD, and Connellsville, PA. This was done to spare the crew from the heavy smoke output of the large engines on the former Central Pacific, where tunnels and snow sheds were common and lengthy. 1 "William Crooks", https://lsrm-nssr.fandom.com/wiki/Duluth,_Missabe_and_Iron_Range_No._227?oldid=84. P38.002 bore no such adornments and had a more conventional appearance. The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road,[1] is a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that hauls iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. The DM&IR decided to build eight engines that would be similar to the Western Pacific's 2-8-8-2's. The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore selected this locomotive as one of their future museum exhibits. These new engines were built with large fireboxes and all-weather cabs requiring a second axle to be added on the rear truck.
By July 1938, the two railways merged to form the DM&IR. Iron ore is heavy, and combined with the railroads steep grades, made transporting this material from the mines to the Great Lakes a tricky task and required great amounts of power. The following year, the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road (D&IR) and Interstate Transfer Railway were added.
All of these had been leased by the DM&N since 1930. 1, Northern Pacific Sleeper/Observation No. But one locomotive, No. 390 Rainier Club, St. Paul and Pacific No. That year the first diesel locomotives, EMD SW9s, arrived on the railway. Galloway, "Well, I must say, they have everything! They were the most powerful Yellowstones built, producing 140,000 l…
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