Northshore Mining SD40-3 650 is tied down outside the Tailings Loadout at Silver Bay. The tailings, waste rock left over from the processing of raw Taconite are towed to the dump site at MP 7.
The Northshore Mining Railroad runs 47 miles from the open pit mine at Babbitt, Minnesota to the huge mill and plant facility on the shore of Lake Superior at Silver Bay. Raw ore is hauled down th... (more)
North Shore Mining trio of SD-40-3's head for Silver Bay with a train load of raw ore.
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