Hmm cell phone isn’t allowing me to copy links 

In 1916, the Missabe was busy enough that it and the general public could no longer tolerate a grade crossing north of Proctor, the town of the Missabe’s main shops and yard.  The station name was Elwood, although it never was a depot, but rather became the site of the Proctor ore scales. 

This will be more of a treatise in theory, not reality, as we are still trying ops sessions to test the concept.

In the real world, things have changed significantly with the introduction of taconite production.  I will focus on natural ore shipping, as it was the mainstay of ore shipments in the 1950s.

Milt

Here starts a recap of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway, known by Railroaders as The Missabe, as it exists in my basement. 

I was just looking up an old post.  I realized (yes, I see it every time I log in, but it just sank in) that MRH has been providing great content to me for 3 years and 30 weeks (my personal "member since"), and for that I just wanted to pass along a note of thanks for all of your hard work. 

Milt

Background synopsis: I model the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.  Most of the railroad is flat, crossing the swamps and lowlands of NE Minnesota.  However, at the geographical edge of the Lake Superior basin, the Missabe brings long strings of loaded ore cars down Proctor Hill to the docks in Duluth. 

At the dock, the Hill Ore Job drops off its loads, ties on to a string of empties already at the dock, then heads back up the 2.2 percent 7-mile grade of the coastal escarpment to Proctor (MN) yard. 

Hey – first blog post…!

A couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone had photos of the slope sheets of hoppers to see what the metal looked like after the lading had taken its toll on the paint.  The cars seem to get worn to the metal in a curving shape that approximates the outside edge of a full load.  Original post is here:

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/4491