Pushing the tailings train back to the plant at Silver Bay. Fall colors are at the peak here in northern Minnesota.
Two of North Shore Minings SD40-3's work hard to move a morning tailings train up the grade at Beaver Bay MN. After a few more minuets they will head up the spur track to the dumpsite to offload a... (more)
NSM 650 grunts and NSM 651 groans as they work together lifting heavy, wet coarse waste tailings out of the Lake Superior basin from Silver Bay to the tailings ponds 7 miles inland.
An empty tailings train heads back to the ore processing plant at Silver Bay with an essence of fall color on the trees.
Pulling through the yard at North Shore Mining's taconite processing plant at Silver Bay we hold while NSM 1235 is about to pull loads around the building and then begin to shove them through the ... (more)
Two units receive repairs at the NSM shops.
A morning tailing's train works up hill with a pair of SD40-3's sandwiching the side dump cars at MP 6.
After dumping the tailings off in the pit that is located behind the hill in the background, the 650 rolls past the 3.6 signal as it heads back to Silver Bay for another load of tailings.
A loaded tailings train from Silver Bay heads for the dump that is just around the corner and through the woods.
A tailings train makes an appearance at MP 5.
An empty tailings train heads back down the hill to the Silver Bay yard.
Heading back to Silver Bay after dumping their train of coarse tailings at the massive basin at M.P. 7, NSM 650 leads the way to take on another load and do it all over again.
Running notch 8 to Silver Bay, MN with 9,000 horsepower pulling 17,000 tons of raw taconite from the mine at Babbitt, MN
9000 horses pulling 17,000 tons of raw taconite upgrade at notch 8 through the Superior National Forest.
Getting ready to depart Babbitt with 146 loads for Silver Bay.
