The Ore Extra is published quarterly, and features lead articles on all aspects of the Missabe. It also features standing departments, such as:
From The President Updates on Society news and happenings
News: A collection of current happenings in and around the Duluth and the Iron Range
Preserved Missabe: Information on vestiges of the past
Missabe Memories: Recollections of Missabe from members and former railroaders
From The Archives: Reproductions from the MRHS Archives
The Missabe Modeler: Articles about the Missabe in miniature
Missabe BiLines: reprints of the DM&IR company communication
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| Issue | Contents |
| Fall 2024 (37:2) | • From the Archives: Wales Branch Revisited • New Interlocking Leads to Docks • The Gales of November 1958 • The Missabe's Rebel • 2024 MRHS Convention Report |
| Summer 2024 (37:1) | • Missabe Modeler: The Steelton Depot and Steelton Enginehouse • From the Archives: Surveys Along the D&IR |
| Spring 2024 (36:4) | • May 10, 2004 - End of an Era • Missabe Modeler - HO-Scale DM&IR K-Class Flat Cars • Missabe Memory: Childhood in Iron Junction |
| Winter 2024 (36:3) | • Wandering Diesels Part 2, Second Section • Missabe Modeler-HO Scale V-class Gondolas • Less Than Carload • 2023 MRHS Convention Report |
| Fall 2023 (36:2) | • Wandering Diesels Part 2 - 1961-1976 First Section • The Last Missabe Iron Ranger • The Basgen Files |
| Summer 2023 (36:1) | • Missabe Modeler: Ore Trapping Machines, DM&IR Rides Three Rails, Graham No 2 Loading Pockets • From the Archives: Endion Structures • The Basgen Files |
| Spring 2023 (35:4) | • Missabe Modeler: HO Scale DM&IR Late Series U-Class Ore Cars and Taconite Junction Depot • Sample Park • Wandering Diesels Part 1 - 1954-1961 • The Basgen Files |
| Winter 2023 (35:3) | • Missabe Modeler: N scale DM&IR Ore Cars, HO scale DM&IR Outside Braced Boxcar and Q-8 Covered Hopper • All Rail Ore Moves - Union Pacific • Steam Locomotives Builders Plates • Former DM&IR Proctor Backshop |
| Fall 2022 (35:2) | • Modeling an HO DM&IR Crane & Boom Car • 3D Printing HO Scale U9-U10-U11 Ore Cars • How'd They Do That? - Fueling Steam Shovels in the Ore Pits • 2022 MRHS Convention Report |
| Summer 2022 (35:1) | • Modeling an HO DM&IR SW9 • All Rail Ore Moves - WC-SP • Clean Team 2022 |
| Spring 2022 (34:4) | • Knife River Depot Restoration • All Rail Ore Moves - C&NW UP • Elektrika - US Steel's Electrical Danger Signs • Modeling an HO DM&IR Class Q5 Hopper |
| Winter 2022 (34:3) | • Modeling an HO DM&IR Class P3 Single Door Boxcar • All Ores Are Not The Same • DM&N Bridge Diagrams |
| Fall 2021 (34:2) | • History of the Hill Annex Mine - Part 6 • Working on the Railroad MOW Equipment |
| Summer 2021 (34:1) | • Edna G Turns 125 Years Old • Before There Was Excel - H. P. Paulson's Notebook - Part Two |
| Spring 2021 (33:4) | • Before There Was Excel - H. P. Paulson's Notebook - Part One • The Atomic Lantern |
| Winter 2021 (33:3) | • Fall of Steam - Second Section • History of the Hill Annex Mine – Part Five • Missabe Modeller - Early Ore Cars and Boxcars • DM&N 1937 Trust Plate |
| Fall 2020 (33:2) | • Railfan Excursions at the End of Steam • The Fall of Steam - September 1962 |
| Summer 2020 (33:1) | • Geologic History of the Hill Annex Mine • History of the Hill Annex Mine – Part Four • This is a Passenger Train? - This is a Passenger Train! • Early Recollections of the D&IR • Ribbons of the Missabe Division |
| Spring 2020 (32:4) | • Tribute to SD18 186 / SD-M 316 |
| Winter 2020 (32:3) | • History of the Hill Annex Mine – Part Three |
| Fall 2019 (32:2) | • History of the Hill Annex Mine – Part Two • 2019 MRHS Convention Report |
| Summer 2019 (32:1) | • DM&IR Centuries • Camping Along The Main Line • Clean Team 2019 • Tracking A Lifelong Hobby |
| Spring 2019 (31:4) | • History of the Hill Annex Mine – Part One • How I Ended Up Getting a Missabe Caboose |
| Winter 2019 (31:3) | • Missabe Coaling Towers 1960 - The Final Year • William A. Steventon’s Railroad Record Club • Cabin in the Woods (photo spread) |
| Fall 2018 (31:2) | • 2018 MRHS Convention Report • D&IR Wood Car Trilogy (modeling) |
| Summer 2018 (31:1) | • Clean Team 2018 • Upgrading Walthers HO Scale Ore Cars • Centenarian Coach 33 Restoration |
| Spring 2018 (30:4) | • My Favorite Missabe Memory (Dave Rowe) • A Missabe Portfolio • Timetables from the Gilbert Collection |
| Winter 2018 (30:3) | • My First Missabe Chase (Steve Glishinski) • Timetables from the Gilbert Collection • Winter on the Range (photo spread) |
| Fall 2017 (30:2) | • 2017 MRHS Convention Report • Working on the Dock (photo spread) |
| Summer 2017 (30:1) | • The Big Hook • Warren Symons Timebooks • Laying the First Welded Rail on DMIR • Building Fraser Yard ... The Hard Way |
| Spring 2017 (29:4) | • Rebuilding the Q5 Hoppers • 1930s Steam Locomotive Maintenance • DM&IR Mini-Quads |
| Winter 2017 (29:3) | • DM&IR Proposal ... BN Joint Operations • D&IR Wood Ore Cars • Missabe Memories — Range Trip March 2004 |
| Fall 2016 (29:2) | • DM&IR Dieselization Study — Part 2 • MRHS 2016 Convention Report • DM&IR Flangers & Snowplows |
| Summer 2016 (29:1) | • DM&IR Dieselization Study — Part 1 |
| Spring 2016 (28:4) | • Inspection Trip Report, July 1975 — Part 2 • Missabe Modeler: MTH Yellowstone • Lease Chronicles: Rock Island 1965 |
| Winter 2016 (28:3) | • Inspection Trip Report, July 1975 — Part 1 • 2015 MRHS Convention Report |
| Fall 2015 (28:2) | • Years of Change on the Iron Range — Part 2 • DM&N Class P Boxcars |
| Summer 2015 (28:1) | • Years of Change on the Iron Range — Part 1 |
| Spring 2015 (27:4) | • Erie Mining F9s 4210 & 4214 • The DM&IR’s Final Diesel Purchase Study |
| Winter 2015 (27:3) | • Car Missabe Restoration Completed • DM&IR 606 at Two Harbors in the 1950s • Missabe Tender Class ID Plates • D&IR and DM&N Summers Ore Cars • U.S. Steel Duluth Works, Part 2 |
| Fall 2014 (27:2) | • 2014 Convention Recap • Lease DM&IR Locomotives • D&IR Stock Cars |
| Summer 2014 (27:1) | • Fireman Herb W. Halverson’s Timebooks Part 2 • The Centennial Passenger Excursion |
| Spring 2014 (26:4) | • Fireman Herb W. Halverson’s Timebooks • D&IR Depot at Waldo Scratch-built Model • DM&IR Caboose C-193 • DM&N Class P-1 Box and Automobile Cars |
| Winter 2014 (26:3) | • Cinders Across the Arrowhead • D&IR and DM&N Steel Ore Cars • Tall Globe Missabe Lanterns, Part 4: The Adams & Westlake Company • Store Room for Car Repair Supplies at Steelton |
| Fall 2013 (26:2) | • U.S. Steel Duluth Works - Part 1 • Jim Maki’s Virginia Memories • MRHS 2013 Convention Recap |
| Summer 2013 (26:1) | • Vern’s Visits by Vern Wigfield • Nip and Tuck: Proctor’s BRT Lodge No. 889 by Jim Miller • The Summer of 1963 by Susan Streed Schulz • B&LE Hopper Cars Leased to DM&IR by Dan Holbrook with Patrick C. Dorin |
| Spring 2013 (25:4) | • Car Missabe Restoration Update • DM&IR’s RDC-3 Budd Car • DM&N Standard Milk Platform with Shed |
| Winter 2012 (25:3) | • Embarrass, MN: The Missabe’s Ice Box • Missabe Telephone & Telegraph Department, Part 2 • The Restoration of DM&IR Yellowstone Mallet 229 • Scratch Built G Class Caboose |
| Fall 2012 (25:2) | • MRHS 2012 Convention • DM&N Standard Automobile Unloading Platform • Cinders Across the Arrowhead • DM&N Wood Ore Cars |
| Summer 2012 (25:1) | • Flood 2012 • DM&N Class V1 Flat Cars in Maintenance Service • Cinders Across the Arrowhead • Tall Globe Missabe Lanterns, Part 3 • DM&N Standard Reel and Hose House |
| Spring 2012 (24:4) | • Duluth & Northeastern 28 - The Life and Times of a Missabe 2-8-0 by Jeff Terry • CN-Missabe News • Range Report • Forty Years Ago in the Iron Ranger |