Great sounding LS&I GE's, and fantastic fall color...

LS&I 3071-3006 lifts its loads of taconite, and is aproaching Eagle Mills Jct. The old girls sound great, and the fall color cant be beat... Jackmp294

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• railroad
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• ironore
• u30c
• c30-7
• locomotive
• taconite
• fall
• fallcolor
• ore
• ge
• generalelectric
• bn
• burlington
• burlingtonnorthern
• jenny
• orejenny
• eaglemills
• minnesota

[Landaux]

Was that once a busy main-line, downgraded to a short-line branch?

[1jackdk]

@Landaux Its an industrial railroad. Runs taconite pellets from the plant, to the ore docks at Marquette Michigan on Lake Superior. Thanks for watching...

[AndrewNeilFalconer]

Would the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth be able to get a U30C when they are retired?

[1jackdk]

Would be nice. There can't be to many around anymore. Thanks for watching. Jack...

[8VSB1994]

Takes me back to Southern Iowa when I was "this many fingers old", when they still said Burlington Northern on the sides. Mostly SD40-2s, U30Cs, and C30-7s. But sometimes you'd see a GP9, SD9 or even the F45 mixed in on even the heavy coal drags. Never a dull moment by the tracks!

[1jackdk]

Oh yes!!! Those where the good days. We lost a lot of railroads, and locomotive types since then. Thanks for watching...

[NS9746]

So this is where all of BNs C30-7 and U30C locomotives went

[Jemalacane]

I have seen a lot of disagreement over whether EMD or GE makes better locomotives. Being almost exclusively a steam fan I wonder why.

[iAmDeathSpank]

Does Taconite have anything to do with tacos?

[MCUpnorth]

The LS&I that services the Tilden and Empire mines in the U.P. do not haul taconite pellets. It hauls Hematite and Magnetite ore pellets. Its a commonly made mistake.

[blueticecho]

@8VSB1994 Ha ! Back when I came on the job the old timers call the BN the Q...