US Steel's Oliver Iron Mining Alco RS 3 rests by a shop building in Virginia MN in the summer of 1971. A few years later when I went there This place was filled with Baldwin Cow and calf units. o... (more)
Oliver Mining survivor sits out of the elements in the Lake Superior Transportation Museum.
Some old abandoned rail from the Oliver Iron Mining Rouchleau Mine operations laying in the woods near the edge of the pit near Virginia, MN. The Rouchleau Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine and i... (more)
Starting it's career hauling ore for the Duluth, Missabe & Northern as DM&N 64 it was then renumbered to 806 when the Oliver Iron Mining Co. took ownership and moved it to Mountain Iron to move or... (more)
Oliver Iron Mining 900, an Alco HH1000, comes out of storage for a little sun. It is believed to be the first diesel-electric locomotive used on the Mesabi Range. Weighing in at 123 tons and deli... (more)