Highland Code Blue Meet
A loaded Minorca pellet train eases past a weighing Minntac load at Highland on New Year's Eve 2002. Missabe achieved its desired unit reduction when they purchased 20 SD40-3 units in the mid-1990s, using two on each I/D pellet train versus three older units.
You could usually tell the Minorca trains as they didn't weigh at Highland, given that plant's ability to weigh cars after loading. Today with Minntac having a scale on both loadouts the weigh-in-motion scales at Proctor and Highland are seldom used and will likely be removed.
Highland Code Blue Meet
A loaded Minorca pellet train eases past a weighing Minntac load at Highland on New Year's Eve 2002. Missabe achieved its desired unit reduction when they purchased 20 SD40-3 units in the mid-1990s, using two on each I/D pellet train versus three older units.
You could usually tell the Minorca trains as they didn't weigh at Highland, given that plant's ability to weigh cars after loading. Today with Minntac having a scale on both loadouts the weigh-in-motion scales at Proctor and Highland are seldom used and will likely be removed.