Duluth, Missabe & Northern Business Car Missabe

Car Missabe was built in 1893 by the Ohio Falls Car Company. It was purchased for the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway by the Merritt brothers, the developers of the Mesabi Iron Range. It was used by the railroad from 1893 until 1931. The car was then sold to Foley Brothers Construction and used as an office at the Boulder Dam construction site. In 1937 the car was sold to George T. Maloy of St. Paul, an executive with Foley Brothers, who moved it to a lot on the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wisconsin for use as a summer home. It served three generations of Maloys for summer vacations. Upon the death of James G. Maloy (George Maloy's only son) in 1997, his wife, Catherine Maloy, donated Car Missabe to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

The interior of the car is largely original and intact. The restoration work on this car took nearly 15 years to complete the exterior, with careful attention to detail to make everything as "original" as possible. Even though the car body is wood, the car itself, not including the trucks (wheels), weighs 35 tons. The car would have cost about $4,500.00 when new. It did not originally have electric lights. These were retrofitted sometime between 1906 and 1910. The car is now on display in the Railroad Museum.