Nostalgia & History > Minnesota Mining Monday

Here we have some more of the brown dirt from northern Minnesota being hauled away to the smelters in the east in the 1980's.
1. Erie Mining F9's make the haul to taconite harbor. They are crossing the Reserve Mining mainline at this location. (i.e.Middle of nowhere)
2. Reserve Mining big EMDs under a Kodachrome sky.
3. DMIR making the trek down Thompson Hill to the docks. Soon brake shoe smoke will envelope the rear portion of the train.

Thomas G.

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I love pic #2 Thomas. Always fun seeing the Reserve Mining SD38-2s. RM 1238 later became LLPX 2802, was leased by the IAIS, and is now IAIS 150, http://www.iaisrailfans.org/info/IAIS150 . I modeled it as it appeared on the IAIS in 2005, with pics at http://www.iaisrailfans.org/gallery/LLPX-2802-SD38-2 .

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
www.iaisrailfans.org/../Sub4WestEnd

Joe, I have followed that build. Great looking model.

Let me know when you want to sell it and I can paint t back into Brown and White for my road. ;-)

Thomas G.

Nice photos, thanks for sharing. #3 is backwards btw.

Al Seever
Phoenix, AZ

Thanks Thomas!

> Let me know when you want to sell it and I can paint t back into Brown and White for my road.
> ;-)

He he he...you never know! I HAVE been giving some thought to backdating to RI days... :-)

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
www.iaisrailfans.org/../Sub4WestEnd

i thought the same thing, when did going to duluth docks hang a right coming down from proctor?? dave, out.

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Reserves switcher too?

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