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  1. CSX 6058 GP40-2

    CSX 6058 GP40-2

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    • 2480 autorack ex-bo ex-cr fostoria iron sd50 sd50-2 triangle unit
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    • Category: CSX
  2. E/B @ CSX diamond

    E/B @ CSX diamond

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    • 1064 8112 es44ac fostoria iron ns sd70ace triangle
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  3. NS 6930 SD60E

    NS 6930 SD60E

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    • 6791 ex-cnw ex-cr fostoria iron sd60 sd60m triangle
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    • Category: Norfolk Southern
  4. Toledo grain

    Toledo grain

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    • 127 823 ac44cw csx es44ac fostoria iron triangle yn3
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    • Category: CSX
  5. Norfolk Southern SD70ACes

    Norfolk Southern SD70ACes

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    • 1064 1116 6087 8112 cp dme es44ac fostoria iron ns sd40-3 sd70ace shops sutherland triangle
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    • Category: Norfolk Southern
  6. Steve's down-under train shots

    Steve's down-under train shots

    Three Hamersley Iron green machines arrive at Parker Point yard Dampier WA with a loaded iron ore drag. From 1995 due to the arrival of the new 70 class GE C44-9W beasts, only six old green machines remained in service.
    • Steve Jeffs
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    • australian hamersley iron trains
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: International Freight Trains
  7. EFVM 9537

    EFVM 9537

    EFVM 9537 leading an empty train for iron cast arriving at Vespasiano yard.
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    • bb36-7 brazil efvm iron ore train
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: International Freight Trains
  8. Locotrol

    Locotrol

    My friend Gutierrez trying to take a picture of one of a remote units in locotrol of 320 coal cars on way to Itabira, MG
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    • bb40-9w brazil efvm iron ore train
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: International Freight Trains
  9. Socoimex iron ore mine

    Socoimex iron ore mine

    The huge digging of Socoimex iron ore mine. The photo was taken from the EFVM passenger train that crosses the big hole.
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    • brazil cvrd efvm iron mine mining ore
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Buildings and Structures
  10. Taconite loads headed to Biwabik

    Taconite loads headed to Biwabik

    The steam coming off the cars was a cool effect.
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    • iron ore snow taconite
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  11. Iron Ridge Cut

    Iron Ridge Cut

    An eastbound Pasco/KC freight slips past the old old tunnel through Iron Ridge on Mullan Pass.
    • martin burwash
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    • cut iron ridge
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Western United States
  12. Green, Yellow, and Burgundy

    Green, Yellow, and Burgundy

    A pair of Wisconsin Central SD45s drag an ore train towards Escanaba, Michigan.
    • John Ryan
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    • cn fall iron michigan ore sd45 wc
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  13. Ore Jenny

    Ore Jenny

    An ex C&NW iron ore jenny in use on the Marquette range to transport iron ore from Palmer Mi to Escanaba Mi on the Wisconsin Central's ore sub.
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    • and central chicago gladstone iron jenny michigan northwestern ore wisconsin
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Freight Cars
  14. Interior shot of Windy Pt Tunnel

    Interior shot of Windy Pt Tunnel

    Interior shot of the Windy Pt Tunnel looking to the east from the west portal. You can see the old grade on the right. This tunnel was built in 1913 and enlarged the following year for double tracks but was never used as such. It was abandoned in 1929 and is now apart of the Iron Goat Trail...
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    • goat great iron northern trail
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Tunnels
  15. Inside the Original Cascade Tunnel

    Inside the Original Cascade Tunnel

    Inside shot of the Original Cascade Tunnel located on Stevens Pass, Wa. This tunnel built in 1900 by the Great Northern Railway is now apart of the Iron Goat Trail and at 2.6 miles long, it is the longest tunnel on a hiking trail system in the US.
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    • goat great iron northern trail tunnel
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Tunnels
  16. Green amid rusty brown

    Green amid rusty brown

    Back in 1989 when I first ventured across the Oz continent to check out the "big trains" of the Pilbara region, I discovered big aussie alcos. Back then the Hamersley Iron loco roster still offered a variety of green machines. In this shot two alcos are spliced by a 60 class SD50s...
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    • hamersley iron
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: International Freight Trains



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