Some of the remaining locomotives that plied the rails for Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel Mining Co. sit in what once the bustling pellet yard of the massive taconite plant. The vegetation h... (more)

A-B-B-B-A F9s working freight service on the tracks they've always called home, this was an amazing sight in 2008 for sure!

It's looking battered and bruised but this F9 earned its keep as long as LTV Steel mining was alive. Dormant for the most part since 2008, it's still awaiting it's fate on Cliffs Erie property. ... (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)

For Sale: One slightly used Alco C420. Assigned to the mine hauls for it's entire time at EMCO / LTVSMC, this beauty never saw mainline service. Now the old Alco sits in the weeds in the shadows o... (more)

Quiet and dormant. Hard to believe this place employed thousands in it's heyday as one of the Minnesota's Iron Range first taconite plants. Not much remains on the property now and nature is star... (more)

After a hard trip busting drifts and breaking trail during a late season snowstorm coming back from Taconite Harbor, Erie Mining Company F9(A) #4210 and three (B) units park off to the side of the... (more)

It's the spring of 2013 and one of two remaining Erie Mining, LTV Mining and now Cliffs Erie Mining F9(A) units still on the property sits along with Erie Mining C420 #7222 in a small yard near wh... (more)

The ABBB set of Cliffs Erie locomotives and 24 cars of chips and fines pokes their head out the west portal of Cramer Tunnel as they continue inland from Taconite Harbor back to CLiffs Erie proper... (more)

This is the last switch stand mainline crews would see from the cab before departing (or the first switch returning) and running the 72.2 mile mainline through the forests of northern Minnesota to... (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)

Paying first class to ride in the Milwaukee Road Skytop Cedar Rapids over the former LTVSMC dock at Taconite Harbor in 2002 was worth every penny. The sun came out and illuminated the shuttered do... (more)