The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad

Railway Equipment and Publication Company Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

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,

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

, 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 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, Minnesota, D ...

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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