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1: Bachmann’s ore gondola works as a Pennsylvania RR
prototype.
Bachmann photo
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taconite pellets to steel mills. The SP cars were used for ore
and are now used for aggregate loading in Texas.
Reserve Mining, now called North Shore Mining, used
this type of car, said Thomas G. They hauled iron ore-
bearing rock, not pellets, to a mill on the shore of
Lake Superior. Check out
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The Reserve Mining photo is dated 1955, making Bachmann’s
product pretty much a diesel-era car, or a new car in the very
late steam era.
Bernd suggested
as a web site that has some pictures
of the real ore cars that you have. There’s lots of info here
on a Brazilian ore-hauling line using North American-style
equipment.
– MRH
