The last revenue ore train to be operated by LTV Steel Mining Company eases out of the plant area for its run to Taconite Harbor. This train consisted of taconite pellet chips and fines reclaimed ... (more)

Former EMCO and later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie F units 4210 with B units 4224, 4225, and 4223 sit near what was once the massive pellet loading yard of Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel. I... (more)

Former EMCO and later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie F units 4210 with B units 4224, 4225, and 4223 sit near what was once the pellet yard of Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel. These units helped... (more)

The once proud face of the Erie Mining Company.

Former Erie Mining and later LTV Steel Alco RS-11 #7209 sits next to the former Missabe RR's Hinsdale branch (which ran to Ely, MN) waiting for movement to it's new owner, Mesabi Nugget, which bou... (more)

The Erie Mining Company was known for their F units hauling taconite pellets from their plant here in Hoyt Lakes to the dock at Taconite Harbor which was located on the shore of Lake Superior. Tod... (more)

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)

Former Erie Mining and later LTV Steel Alco RS-11 #7209 sits under the Hinsdale bridge and next to the former Missabe RR's Hinsdale branch waiting for movement to it's new owner, Mesabi Nugget, wh... (more)

Looking more like the bottom of a bird cage than one of the once mighty Erie Mining/ LTV Steel EMD built F units, EMCO 4214 sits in the weeds in a small three track yard on Cliffs Erie property wa... (more)

One of the former Erie Mining Company F9(A) units and three B units (#4223, 4225 and 4224) now owned by Cliffs Erie sit along trackage that was once used to serve the massive pellet plant ( which... (more)

Rare elephant style tac train heads north out of Allen Jct... unfortunate about all the new signal ugliness.

Erie Mining 7207 and 7209, a pair of ALCO RS11's, idle while waiting their turn to unload a train of raw iron ore at the huge processing plant in Hoyt Lakes Minnesota.

Shot from County Road 666 just east of Hoyt Lakes, BL&E 909 heads through Superior National Forest on its way to Two Harbors.

Dead on hours, this five unit MRF train sits at Allen Jct. awaiting a crew to take it the rest of the way towards Two Harbors, MN. Included in this line-up are the Illinois Central 6250, DM&IR 407... (more)

DM&IR 403 puts on a little smoke show for the EJ&E 674 sitting in the shadows at Allen Jct.