The Lake Superior Iron Ore Railroads - The World's Heaviest Trains

by Patrick C. Dorin

Book Overview

Well-done pictorial history of the railroads that served the great iron ore mines of Lake Superior, the Menominee and the Cuyuna Ranges: the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railway, the Lake Superior... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517243385
• ISBN13: 9780517243381
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Bonanza Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

very complete coverage of ore transport by rail

Numerous black and white photographs, often several per page, of steam and diesel operations, as well as maps and elevation profiles. Chapters: The Why of It All Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad The Great Northern Railway The Menominee Range, The Chicago and Northwestern and the Milwaukee Road Soo Line Railroad Ore Operations, Marquette and Ashland The Cuyuna Range Railroads Other Ore Carriers