Minnesota Mining Railroads In Color Volume 2 SPECIAL ORDER ONLY

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