BN 9232 empty tac symbol HT801, St Louis River, Brookston, Minn; Aug 2, 1995_
An empty ore train destined for the Hibbing Taconite pellet plant crossing the St Louis River. During the early 1990s Hibbing Taconite, or Hibtac for short, loaded two 160-car "dock trains" every 24-hours. The trains were dumped at the BN docks at Allouez, near Superior, Wis., where the pellets were transloaded into Great Lakes ore boats.
If anyone cares, I wrote an article covering the BN's Mesabi Range ore operations for CTC Board that ran in the January 1995 issue. I briefly dispatched these lines when I worked for the BN at the Northtown DS office at Minneapolis.
BN 9232 empty tac symbol HT801, St Louis River, Brookston, Minn; Aug 2, 1995_
An empty ore train destined for the Hibbing Taconite pellet plant crossing the St Louis River. During the early 1990s Hibbing Taconite, or Hibtac for short, loaded two 160-car "dock trains" every 24-hours. The trains were dumped at the BN docks at Allouez, near Superior, Wis., where the pellets were transloaded into Great Lakes ore boats.
If anyone cares, I wrote an article covering the BN's Mesabi Range ore operations for CTC Board that ran in the January 1995 issue. I briefly dispatched these lines when I worked for the BN at the Northtown DS office at Minneapolis.