Working rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

Rail-n-surf post here as blades are loaded onto cars.

 

[ArlyA]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?

 

[MossRoad]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?
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Very cool.

 

[BravoXray]

Train pulls blades out of the port toward an interchange with BNSF in Duluth MN. May 20, 2024 Now I wonder how long those blades are?
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Those look like 50 foot flat cars, so probably about 150 foot long blades.

 

[ArlyA]

I just love these historical photos. Note the tracks laying in the ditch and some already disassembled.
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August 1941. Hull-Rust-Mahoning, world's largest open pit iron mine, near Hibbing, Minnesota. Photo by John Vachon....

 

[ArlyA]

Inaugural run of CN 3323 engine on a pellet train near Duluth MN. Our steel industry at work. (with a Canadian RR company no less )

 

[ArlyA]

Thigs is again in Duluth MN.

 

[ArlyA]

testing the radius.

 

[ArlyA]

Another nice shot in Duluth of the blades getting ready to head to CA.

 

[oldtimer 66]

Inaugural run of CN 3323 engine on a pellet train near Duluth MN. Our steel industry at work. (with a Canadian RR company no less )
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Nice stuff all GE's

 

[ArlyA]

Crossing the St Louise harbor today Duluth MN.

 

[oldnslo]

Another nice shot in Duluth of the blades getting ready to head to CA. View attachment 871915

Why would they unload in Duluth if final destination is California? Wouldn’t it have been much easier to unload on Cali coast?

Very interesting how mounted so can go around corners.

 

[Runner]

Finally, something uglier than graffiti on a rail car....

 

[ArlyA]

Why would they unload in Duluth if final destination is California? Wouldn’t it have been much easier to unload on Cali coast?

Very interesting how mounted so can go around corners.

Canada

 

[BravoXray]

Why would they unload in Duluth if final destination is California? Wouldn’t it have been much easier to unload on Cali coast?

Very interesting how mounted so can go around corners.

Most likely it's cheaper to ship to Duluth by ship, then on rail from Duluth to Canada. Could be that the problems with lack of rain in the Panama Canal area, forcing long delays was a deciding factor.

The skinny ends of the blades rest in a saddle that will allow them to move fore and aft to allow for buff/slack in couplers and draft gears and rotate for traversing curves. Really nothing the railroads haven't been doing for many years. I believe BN has been shipping Boeing aircraft fuselages from Washington to Kansas on special rail cars for quite a while.

 

[ArlyA]

Most likely it's cheaper to ship to Duluth by ship, then on rail from Duluth to Canada. Could be that the problems with lack of rain in the Panama Canal area, forcing long delays was a deciding factor.

The skinny ends of the blades rest in a saddle that will allow them to move fore and aft to allow for buff/slack in couplers and draft gears and rotate for traversing curves. Really nothing the railroads haven't been doing for many years. I believe BN has been shipping Boeing aircraft fuselages from Washington to Kansas on special rail cars for quite a while.

CA is Canada. The blades are going to Canada.

 

[MossRoad]

CA is Canada. The blades are going to Canada.

Are you sure?

 

[ArlyA]

CN dropped a few cars off at the Proctor MN.

 

[BravoXray]

A man in Mishawaka, IN is lucky to be alive, after his car was hit by not one, but two trains. He had only minor injuries and was able to get out of the car after being hit by the first train, before the second one hit it.
Some idiots evade the Darwin award.


Man walks away after train hits car in Mishawaka

 

[MossRoad]

Yeesh