File:Soo Line - 80944 ore car.jpg
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This is a restored iron ore car built in 1916 for the Soo Line (= Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad). It was painted hematite red to reflect a common color of the iron ore rocks it hauled. Steel ore cars like this were used to ship high-density, Proterozoic-aged iron ore from the iron ranges of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This car is now part of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum collection in the town of North Freedom, Wisconsin. The railroad ballast on the ground is crushed Baraboo Quartzite, which is ~1.7 billion years old (Paleoproterozoic). It comes from a nearby quarry in the Baraboo Ranges of southern Wisconsin. More info.: www.midcontinent.org/equipment-roster/steel-freight-cars/... |
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| Source | Soo Line # 80944 ore car |
| Author | James St. John |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by jsj1771 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/19334488402. It was reviewed on 4 July 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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| current | 01:19, 4 July 2015 | | 3,250 × 1,605 (2.49 MB) | Tillman | Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons |
