Posted by Dave Schauer on June 24, 2008  Thanks for sharing John. This looks like the Steelton Switch with a cut of ballast cars on the head end and taconite concentrate for the C&NW at South Itasca trailing. The North Western moved quite a bit of concentrate from the Missabe in the early 1990s. You can sure tell these are low side "regulars" with friction bearing trucks given the brake shoe smoke coming down the 1.8% grade. Posted by Ray Peacock heartlandrails.com on June 24, 2008  Beautiful photo, a true classic John. Posted by Darrell Hendrix on June 24, 2008  Beautiful photo ! Looks like the engineer needed a little more dynamics and a little less big air... Posted by Run8diesel on June 24, 2008  John, thanks for the trip back in time. Too bad the CN came along. Posted by Bicot (Marc Caya) on June 25, 2008  Awesome picture, consist and action! Well done again John.

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