With heavy snow coming down, the conductor clears out the switch for the run around track at the approach to the Humboldt Mill where they will shove in the empties and pickup the loads before head... (more)
A train of 18 empty gondolas gets underway at Landing Jct. in Ishpeming, MI. At the other end of the line this fall Eagle Mine's Humboldt Mill started refining ore mined in Marquette County.
With its expansion to the Humboldt Mill, Mineral Range is becoming one of the more interesting and classic looking shortlines in the upper midwest. Not too many years ago Lake Superior & Ishpeming... (more)
A whitetail doe takes advantage of the train pausing to flag a road crossing by running across the Mineral Range tracks.