The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Railway Equipment and Publication Company
The Official Railway Equipment Register
June 1917, p. 582 was founded in 1874. In 1884, it ran the first main line train between Two Harbors and Soudan,

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, a total distance of 68 miles. In July 1938, the railway merged with the

Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N, DMN) was a rail transport, railroad company in the United States, U.S. state of Minnesota. It was one of the earliest iron ore hauling railroads of the area, said to have built the largest iron ore d ...

to form the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.

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