Haulin' Ash
When LTVSMC restarted their power generating station at Taconite Harbor in 1993 they chose a segregated area of their tailings basin at the mine for disposal of fly ash. The railroad would then haul short trains of side-dump cars filled with the ash back to Hoyt Lakes a few times each week, usually using an available road set and crew in a normal pellet train slot. This practice ceased in 2000 and I believe the ash was (and still is) trucked to a disposal site near Duluth (Doug?).
Haulin' Ash
When LTVSMC restarted their power generating station at Taconite Harbor in 1993 they chose a segregated area of their tailings basin at the mine for disposal of fly ash. The railroad would then haul short trains of side-dump cars filled with the ash back to Hoyt Lakes a few times each week, usually using an available road set and crew in a normal pellet train slot. This practice ceased in 2000 and I believe the ash was (and still is) trucked to a disposal site near Duluth (Doug?).