It's looking battered and bruised but this F9 earned its keep as long as LTV Steel mining was alive. Dormant for the most part since 2008, it's still awaiting it's fate on Cliffs Erie property. ... (more)
An Erie Mining Baldwin handles commercial freight from the DM&IR interchange while on the hill in the distance a pair of mine service RS11s haul a train of ore to the crusher.
Erie Mining/LTV Steel owned three Alco C420’s. Number 7222 was delivered as # 602 in 1965 and in 1991 was assigned to the Hoyt Lakes plant site where it worked crude ore trains hauling rock from... (more)
For Sale: One slightly used Alco C420. Assigned to the mine hauls for it's entire time at EMCO / LTVSMC, this beauty never saw mainline service. Now the old Alco sits in the weeds in the shadows o... (more)
Quiet and dormant. Hard to believe this place employed thousands in it's heyday as one of the Minnesota's Iron Range first taconite plants. Not much remains on the property now and nature is star... (more)