Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Missabe Railroad HS

An enormous, sprawling, disorderly building in northern Minnesota's wilderness. At the Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken last August during the annual convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Details--obscured by the high contrast--at the end of the boom of Erie Mining's crane 4269. At the Cliffs-Erie complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota; August 2006. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Alongside this structure . Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken during the August, 2006, convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Another photo from last summer's Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention.

As the MRHS bus pulled into the Cliffs-Erie complex, I told Joan that, despite Chuck Corwyn and Doug Buell's background information about the mining operation, we'd really come to get close to the F9s. Although "F9" is meaningless to her, she discovered I was right. One last look. Time to retire the Saturday series of photographs. Thanks for stopping by. Taken on a Missabe Railroad Historical Society convention outing; August, 2006.

Best LARGE . The Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Technically, this is a photograph of Hinsdale, a named place on the railroad, but apparently never a settlement. The mine built this hill/tailings pile to raise the railroad to a useful height at the large processing plant . But then they needed a grade-level railroad entry, so they built a tunnel through the hill. That didn't work satisfactorily, so they ripped everything out and replaced the tunnel with this overpass. The remains of the tunnel are visible under the bridge (though they don't show in this photo). The Missabe Railroad Historical Society's convention took us here, August of 2006.

At the Cliffs-Erie (former LTV) complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.

At the Cliffs-Erie complex, near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society; August, 2006.

One last view of the 4269 crane parked on the Cliffs-Erie complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota.

More/different details of the crane at the former LTV facility known as Cliffs-Erie; near Hoytville, Minnesota. Photograph taken on a Missabe Railroad Historical Society excursion Beginning to get a feel for Aperture . There are definitely things to like about it.

At Cliffs-Erie, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Same crane as I showed last week, but I've moved closer....

At the Erie Mining (aka LTV, & Cliffs-Erie) mining site near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken during the 2006 convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society

At the Cliffs-Erie iron mining complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on an excursion with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society in August, 2006.

Duluth harbor, from the pilot house of former US Steel Great Lakes Fleet flagship William A. Irvin , in August of 1988 (I think.) The Irvin was retired in the late 1970s, and has been a museum in Duluth's harbor for the past two decades. That's the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge , of course, near the center of the photo. The ferry sharing the channel with the the Irvin is Wenonah . Wenonah's now one of the boats ferrying visitors from Grand Portage to Isle Royale, but I don't know what she was doing in 1988.