> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:49:18 -05
> From: B Kuitunen <bekett@uslink.net>
> Subject: Re: Ore car question from the CBQlist
>
> Then as now, anyone's ore could wind up at anyone's plant depending
> on ore trades and so on.
>
> Ore on the CBQ could concievably come from any of the Minnesota ore
> roads. The majority ore shipper that would have gone on CBQ was
> Hanna Mining ore from the Mesaba to then-National Steel's Granite
> City Steel plant in East St. Louis. This is still a major destination
> for Keetac and Minntac pellets on BNSF. These would have been
predominately
> Great Northern cars though it is very possible that some Cuyuna Range
> ore came from Hanna's Cuyuna operations in NP cars. I doubt Soo
> cars would have gone that far off line unless they were in a free
> floating pool with the NP cars. Others can comment on that.
>
> There would have been occasional Missabe car trains for shipments
> to other mills, like the USS mills in Gary or South Chicago, and
> also possibly some Hanna ore from the east Range to Granite City.
>
>
> Most of the CGW ore from Minnesota's Spring Valley district would
> also have headed for Granite City, though some could have found its
> way to Chicago.
>
> I don't think much UP or Wisconsin ore would have gone this way,
> though it is possible that some did.
>
> Bruce K
> Mt. Iron, MN
> OreRail: Covering Iron Ore Railroading in the Lake Superior Region.
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