Chris Guss
Empty ore
An LKAB ore empty heads east near Søsterbekk Station. The former Norddal trestle in the background was bypassed in the late 1980s as the weight of the ore trains became too much for the structure. Interestingly enough the new alignment the train is on breaks off inside the mountain on the left near the end of the ore train.
With traffic projected to increase to 40+ trains a day on this line in the next decade or so, the old alignment may again see trains when a second main track is constructed from Kiruna to Narvik.
Empty ore
An LKAB ore empty heads east near Søsterbekk Station. The former Norddal trestle in the background was bypassed in the late 1980s as the weight of the ore trains became too much for the structure. Interestingly enough the new alignment the train is on breaks off inside the mountain on the left near the end of the ore train.
With traffic projected to increase to 40+ trains a day on this line in the next decade or so, the old alignment may again see trains when a second main track is constructed from Kiruna to Narvik.