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)

One of the Erie Mining company's F9(A) units and three B units seen in better days when they were used to haul cars of pellet remains and fines after workers cleaned out the Taconite Harbor dock. ... (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)

As I searched the database at RPN I found only one other shot of an Erie Mining train that wasn't powered by the F9s. Here I believe C420 4219 heads up a limestone train headed to Hoyt Lakes

Memories. The Cliffs Erie F9's and Taconite Harbor ore dock. In the operations heyday this pellet train with four Electro Motive Division F9 1750 HP locomotives would travel the 74 miles from th... (more)

Some of the goodies used by the North Shore Scenic Railroad to move tourists along the shores of Lake Superior wait outside the Duluth Depot.

Erie Mining Company 4211 poses in the sun in front of the Duluth and Iron Range Depot in two Harbors, MN. The big F9 now belongs to the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

North Shore Scenic Railroad's newest edition poses outside the Depot in Two Harbors, MN. They were using the 4211 to switch passenger cars as the Soo 2719 was being wyed for the return trip to Du... (more)

The famous Cliffs Erie F units pass one of the many waterfalls and rock cuts along the shore of Lake Superior as they continue to clean out the dock of chips and fines (broken taconite pellets) bo... (more)

Erie Mining Company's F9 4211 is sitting on her home rails for the last time as she waits to be picked up by CN and brought down to the Depot and the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN. ... (more)

EMCO ( Erie Mining Company) 4211 and 4222 sit at Hinsdale waiting to be picked up by CN's MRF train for transport to Duluth, MN and the Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

The final run of the day involving twelve cars loaded with chips and fines cleaned out from the former LTV dock along Lake Superior. The cars will be hauled back to the main plant at Hoyt Lakes, ... (more)