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Duluth, Mesabe, and Iron Range Yellowstone Engine at Round House (Likely Duluth, Minnesota), Date Unknown
Digital Scan from a medium format 6x7cm color negative in poor condition, date and location unknown. (Possibly Duluth, Mn. Round House). Color values indicate photograph was likely made in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s.
Duluth, Mesabi and Iron Range Railroad Engine #225 at center taking on water with workers in various locations going about their duties.
Built to haul heavy taconite iron ore from the Iron Range in Eastern Minnesota to Great Lakes iron ore carriers in Duluth, the DMIR engines, 2-8-8-4 Yellowstones, were rivaled in size only by the Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4’s. (See “Whyte Classification System” for an explanation of steam engine wheel arrangements).
The Yellowstones were among the largest steam engines ever built in the United States. There were a few “one-off” experimental designs that may have been larger, but they never went into mass production. As with the Big Boys, the Yellowstones were articulated engines, designed for the boiler to “swing out” over the front wheels of the engine on sharp curves. Longer boilers with larger fireboxes and increased weight gave the “tractive effort” needed to haul the tremendous weight of iron ore trains, thus necessitating the articulated design.
Seventy-two Yellowstone engines were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works starting in 1928. The name was given this engine by the Northern Pacific Railway, one of four railroads which purchased these huge engines.
Ernest Robert’s collection of railroad photographs, on loan from his daughter, provides a rare opportunity for rail fans to purchase silver halide photographic prints from many of his large format negatives–some taken by him and others purchased from photographers and collectors. Other collection images requiring digital restoration will yield inkjet prints.
Original prints in the collection have been copied digitally under rigorous lighting conditions providing inkjet prints of the highest possible quality.
see coloradoinblackandwhite.com in the coming weeks for many more Ernest Roberts Railroad Photography images.
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