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 to form the

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) , informally known as the Missabe Road, was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbor ...

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Predecessors of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Defunct Minnesota railroads Former Class I railroads in the United States Railway companies established in 1874 Railway companies disestablished in 1938 1874 establishments in Minnesota American companies established in 1874 American companies disestablished in 1938 {{Minnesota-transport-stub