Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: mrhs

The large buildings at Erie Mine are actually three separate but closely-related plants--an ore crusher, an aggregator which separates the iron from the waste rock, and a taconite pellet plant which packages the ore into the pellets that the steel mill furnaces expect. Near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken on a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

At the Cliffs-Erie complex, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, during last month's convention of the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

Part of a work train parked on the edge of Erie Mine, Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. Taken an a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society. Didn't deliberately overexpose this one--in bright light, framing a photo with the F10 is guesswork, and exposure's pretty much outside your control--but it came out nicely....

This is the crusher building at LTV's large open pit mine near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota--the place goes by a variety of (historical) names, the most recent of which is Cliffs-Erie (Cliffs being the mine's manager; Erie being the mine's name). The Hoyt Lakes plant is the oldest taconite processing plant in existence, dating from the mid-1950s. The processing plant's been optioned to Polymet; the rest of the complex is available.... This photo really doesn't give a proper perspective; that building would be huge in any setting. Taken during a tour with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.

312 was originally DMIR 181, an SD-18 built by GM's Electromotive Division in 1960; she was rebuilt in 1989 into what the Missabe Road called an SD-M and renumbered at that time. The most obvious mark of an SD-M conversion was the low nose; all SD-9s & SD-18s arrived online as high nose locomotives. The other identifiable locomotives in this photo are 314--a similar backstory, and you'll see more of her--and 203, an SD38AC. The 312 was scrapped in 2002. Yeah, I know this set of notes jargon-infested. It's that railfan thing . --------------------- I plan to show a couple more photos of this loco before we do some more exploring around Two Harbors Yard.... Shot with my Minolta Freedom 100 in 1990; outing with the Missabe Railroad Historical Society.