Railroad Museum Tours #35 - Ore Car
Why are we here? Isn't that the question... but we're not getting that philosophical, we are a Railroad Museum afterall. We'll give you the answer, to why we are here... Iron Ore. Northern Minnesota, and the Iron Ore found here are what built this area to what it is today, and today's episode is about the ore-hauling freight car that shipped it from the mines to Duluth's port.
This is a daily series of video posts from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minnesota at a time when the museum is closed during the COVID19 shutdown and we are bringing the museum to you!
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I learned something today. Thank you. Every time I visit Duluth, I'm impressed by how many ore cars there are, both on the docks and inland.
The amount of knowledge I have gained from this video series has been amazing. Thank for for taking the time to make them. This series should win the 2020 railroad video of the year award!
@NorthShoreScenicRailroadDuluth
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Hoping to get more viewers and subscribers... Any sharing is helpful!!
Can remember a train of taconite pellets *steaming* past Gilbert on a cold morning, not because there were steam locomotives but because the pellets were fresh out of the furnace heading for the shore. It was a sight to see.
Another great video. My kudos to all who made this video. Thank you very much. Be safe and healthy please.
💥 I love learning more about the iron range! Another fantastic video! Thank you so much!
Pretty good ore car.
fantastic info I never knew any of that thanks for these brilliant videos Ken
Pipes?! LOL: I am definitely very nosey.
Dillon hey porter
This has been on my mind for a while now, CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY IRON ORE COULDN’T BE MOVED IN NORMAL HOPPERS?!
@railsofthenorthland1181
3 жыл бұрын
Too heavy
@Puffie40
2 жыл бұрын
Ore density. There was a lead-zinc mine near where I grew up, and the ore cars coming from the concentrating plant were shorter yet.
@PennsyPappas
Жыл бұрын
You can load them into conventional hoppers as some railroads who received the ore did but only the bottom half as the other commenters said way to heavy. Basically if you fully loaded a holler you'd b!ow out the bottom entirely.
So, you need the dirt to make iron. You need a train car to deliver the dirt. You need iron to make a train car... Anyone else see a problem here? ;-)
@BuzzMcmanus1991yo
3 жыл бұрын
Until 1900 all the ore cars were made out of wood, so wood cars brought the iron dirt to make metal cars.
@LGTheOneFreeMan
2 жыл бұрын
Why do you think the first one he showed was wood?
@davidtheriot7404
2 жыл бұрын
@@BuzzMcmanus1991yo I guess he wasn't paying attention when he showed the wooden cars that brought the first loads of iron ore.