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I was visiting the family in the St. Louis/Alma area today. There were several hoppers sitting on the north side of the old refinery site by the new Alma Iron and Metal facility. There was one old flat sitting in St. Louis and at least one empty and one loaded center beam at Bear Truss. I didn't see...

These two units were in Bad Axe. 3867 was in the shop for its 92 day inspection on Tuesday. 1471 was working Pigeon Friday night.

I went by Wallace on Tuesday. There were two cuts of hoppers. One was on the spur into the quarry and the other was out on the siding. There was another cut of hoppers in Pigeon, just east of the M-142 crossing. There were hoppers being loaded at the elevator and quite a string of box cars out at th...

I found this on the MDOT website.

http://mdotwas1.mdot.state.mi.us/public ... fm?vidId=7

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Chris, The text book we use incorrectly lists everything as taconite and does not mention the hemitite and magnetite. I picked up a kit at a seminar I was at a few years ago. It contains samples of all the raw materials used to make the different pellets and explains where the different types of ore...

My wife graduated from NMU in May 2007 and we have only been back once since and that was in February for an NMU hockey game. We missed out on trains and boats. I hope to get up there for a few days this summer. I need to scoop up some pellets at the 550 crossing. This years class of 4th graders cle...

My friend that works for HESR went to NECR for training on the APU installation. We were talking about the APUs at a Christmas party. He indicated that there had been some problems but that the APU's made life much easier for them.