Murphy City
Looking west along the Erie Mining Company-built mainline at Murphy station at Murphy City, Minnesota. Murphy City was constructed by the mining company as a maintenance section crew base complete with a small neighborhood on the east side of Minnesota Highway 1. On the west wide, the section buildings cluster off of a rails spur visible to the right. Fascinating to walk around this area and see what evidence remains years after the last train plied the rails. Steve Glischinski shot a loaded taconite train heading to Taconite Harbor here in 1975. The original station sign was replaced and the plants have had plenty of time to mature. See below for his photo from this location.
Murphy City
Looking west along the Erie Mining Company-built mainline at Murphy station at Murphy City, Minnesota. Murphy City was constructed by the mining company as a maintenance section crew base complete with a small neighborhood on the east side of Minnesota Highway 1. On the west wide, the section buildings cluster off of a rails spur visible to the right. Fascinating to walk around this area and see what evidence remains years after the last train plied the rails. Steve Glischinski shot a loaded taconite train heading to Taconite Harbor here in 1975. The original station sign was replaced and the plants have had plenty of time to mature. See below for his photo from this location.