Northern Pacific Railway — Dock Job — Superior, WI — Sept. 9, 1966
There are very few pictures around showing the NP's ore operations at their Hill Avenue ore yard. It's a very warn September day and these locomotives are about to push forty NP and Soo Line ore cars up onto the NP's ore dock. From here, it's about 9/10ths of a mile to the top of the dock and 90 percent of that distance will be traversed on top of a timber trestle that stretched from the northern end of Hill Avenue ore yard to the ore dock itself. This is where Cuyuna Range iron ore was trans-loaded from this single ore dock into lake boats for the long journey down the lakes to the steel mills. During the diesel era here, a pair of Alco RS-11s were the typical power used by NP. Special thanks to Karl Henkels for this image. Most of his shots were just the locomotives. I'm really happy that he showed a bit of the train too, in this image.
Northern Pacific Railway — Dock Job — Superior, WI — Sept. 9, 1966
There are very few pictures around showing the NP's ore operations at their Hill Avenue ore yard. It's a very warn September day and these locomotives are about to push forty NP and Soo Line ore cars up onto the NP's ore dock. From here, it's about 9/10ths of a mile to the top of the dock and 90 percent of that distance will be traversed on top of a timber trestle that stretched from the northern end of Hill Avenue ore yard to the ore dock itself. This is where Cuyuna Range iron ore was trans-loaded from this single ore dock into lake boats for the long journey down the lakes to the steel mills. During the diesel era here, a pair of Alco RS-11s were the typical power used by NP. Special thanks to Karl Henkels for this image. Most of his shots were just the locomotives. I'm really happy that he showed a bit of the train too, in this image.