Minnesota Mining Railroads In Color Volume 2

Hardcover, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color photographs with extensive captions.

A number of color photographs and extensive captions along with color maps make this an exceptional Morning Sun Books title. This book doubles as a color guide for the respective companies.

This volume features Reserve Mining Company and Erie Mining Company (and their successors)! These two private industrial mainline railroads were constructed in the mid-1950s to support new taconite iron ore-processing operations and fielded a wide variety of first-generation diesel models. Details the history of these operations as well as locomotives and rolling stock!

Contents:
Taconite Pioneers, pg. 3,
Reserve Mining Co., pp. 4-27,
Cyprus Northshore Mining, pp. 28-33,
Cliffs Northshore Mining, pp. 34-57,
Erie Mining / LTVSMC, pp. 58-113,
Cliffs Erie, pp. 114-127,
Oliver Iron Mining Addendum, pg. 128.

Features:

• New
• Hardcover
• David C. Schauer
• Morning Sun Books