Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway caboose - C-74
This caboose was built in 1924 by the Duluth, Minnesota & Northern Railroad and became a Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway caboose in 1938. It was the rear-end car of numerous trains that shipped iron ore from northern Minnesota's Mesabi Range until 1965. The iron ore was initially high-grade hematite in the Biwabik Iron-Formation (1.85 to 1.93 billion years old). After that was depleted, taconite in the same stratigraphic unit became the principal mining target.
This caboose is now part of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum collection in the town of North Freedom, Wisconsin.
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Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range RailwayDie Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DMIR), war eine Eisenbahngesellschaft im Norden der US-Bundesstaaten Minnesota und Wisconsin. Die Bahn transportierte Eisenerz und später auch Takonit zu den Häfen von Duluth und Two Harbors am Lake Superior. Die Bahngesellschaft wurde am 10. Mai 2004 von der Canadian National Railway (CN) aufgekauft. .. weiterlesen