Winter on the Northshore Mining Railroad - Iron Ore Hauler

Winter on the Northshore Mining Railroad - Iron Ore Hauler
With the pending shutdown of Northshore Mining at end of April 2021 for an unspecified amount of time, a trek to northern Minnesota was in order. We started out the day at the well know Toimi ponds location for the 0500 train on its way back to the mine. We then headed for the county highway 2 overpass and waited for the 1100 loaded train headed south for Silver Bay. We followed this train the rest of the day at MP6, then returning empty at the famous Railfan Rock the once again at Toimi to end our day. It was nice to see veteran SD40-3 #651 built in 1966 (Ex-CR 6338/PC 6085/PRR 6085) leading the empties back to mine in Babbit. 2004 built SD70ACE #675 (Ex-PRLX 4802/CSX 4802) lead the loads down to Silver Bay.
00:00 0500 Empties at Toimi
01:49 1100 Loads at Hwy 2
04:00 1100 Loads at MP6
06:45 1100 Empties at Railfan Rock
10:36 1100 Empties at Toimi
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[@thomaskittsii1008]

Absolutely beautiful color in this video...Blue sky is awesome in the white snow 👍.

[@MNRails]

Thank you so much 👍

[@julianwalker1546]

Many thanks for braving what I presume was extremely cold weather for these great sequences. And nice to see that this railway has left hand running, as we do here in the UK.

[@MNRails]

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes it was pretty cold.

[@CCXMedia]

Looking good MNRails!!!!

[@StationRailfan]

Very cool video! Hopefully, the Northshore shutdown won't be too long.

[@MNRails]

I hope so too!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Another outstanding video of the Iron Range.

[@MNRails]

Thanks!

[@shawnleih2916]

Very good 👍 video on Iron range trains

[@MNRails]

Thanks for watching

[@brandonreeves5979]

Incredible footage!!! Great catch. 👍🏻🎥💯

[@MNRails]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@brandonreeves5979]

@@MNRails yes sir, of course.

[@telcelmagdalena6288]

Very Nice. Perron dedo arriba

[@MNRails]

Thank you!

[@LanternSignals]

Everyone will be watching snow videos this week because of the heatwave

[@rl7537]

Do you know how these loaded cars are dumped at the plant? Rotary couplers or bottom dump?

[@MNRails]

I believe they are rotary.

[@ahtrains]

Footage before Simon Snowbank name started

[@MNRails]

He loves that name.

[@randolphgoodmann4188]

Fantastic footage! How would you recommend parking at the curves around MP 5.5 aka "Railfan Rock?" It seems like that gravel lot isnt plowed during snowy times, so I'm curious how all of you managed to pull that one off. I have to admit, I'm a bit jealous of your great camerawork :-) Great video!

[@MNRails]

Thanks! We just parked on the road.