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Number 1

Erie Mining caboose No. 1 brings up the rear of a 96-car pellet train headed for Taconite Harbor. EMCO's original cabooses were bay-window but were converted to extended vision as shown here. Erie was an early adopter of EOT devices so it wouldn't be much longer after I took this shot that pellet trains would operate sans caboose.

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Uploaded on December 26, 2014
Taken on September 2, 1981