Rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

Rail-n-surf post here as blades are loaded onto cars.

 

[ArlyA]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?

 

[MossRoad]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?
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Very cool.

 

[BravoXray]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?
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Those look like 50 foot flat cars, so probably about 150 foot long blades.

 

[ArlyA]

I just love these historical photos. Note the tracks laying in the ditch and some already disassembled.
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August 1941. Hull-Rust-Mahoning, world's largest open pit iron mine, near Hibbing, Minnesota. Photo by John Vachon....

 

[ArlyA]

Inaugural run of CN 3323 engine on a pellet train near Duluth MN. Our steel industry at work. (with a Canadian RR company no less )

 

[ArlyA]

Thigs is again in Duluth MN.

 

[ArlyA]

testing the radius.

 

[ArlyA]

Another nice shot in Duluth of the blades getting ready to head to CA.

 

[oldtimer 66]

Inaugural run of CN 3323 engine on a pellet train near Duluth MN. Our steel industry at work. (with a Canadian RR company no less )
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Nice stuff all GE's