Loading an Ore Ship: The Massive Mesabi Miner
For your educational viewing pleasure, Douglas Hildebrandt uses aerial footage to show how the massive Mesabi Miner is loaded with taconite at Canadian National Dock 6 in West Duluth.
For your educational viewing pleasure, Douglas Hildebrandt uses aerial footage to show how the massive Mesabi Miner is loaded with taconite at Canadian National Dock 6 in West Duluth.
About 70 miles northeast of Duluth, near Crosby Manitou State Park, is a unincorporated community named after its pioneer merchant, J.N. Cramer. There sits Minnesota’s longest train tunnel, connecting the former LTV Steel Hoyt Lakes taconite plant with its ore dock at Taconite Harbor. A recent post on photographer Dan Turner’s Substreet website features a collection if interesting summer and winter photos from the tunnel and surrounding area.
