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Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:31 pm
by AARR
IBCX 3492 is pictured in CN's Partridge Yard heading toward Ishpeming.

Video by Rob Sved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ0U4bwJwNY

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Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:49 pm
by AARR
Another video by Rob Sved with IBCX 3492. See 6'30" for it. At the end they also show MR picking it up with one of the GP9's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyp00f9EFLs

Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:11 pm
by NS3322
Looks like 3492 was one of the two IBCX SD40-2s that were being stored on the Indiana Northeastern last summer:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=6104088

Mineral Range also has IBCX 3460:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53909555@ ... 13119@N23/

ISLX GP10 1345 was sold to IBCX and is currently being stored on the Central Indiana & Western Railroad in Lapel, IN.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=65 ... 3874144137

Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:13 pm
by David Collins
Hoping it’s not the end of the link for those two Geeps, thanks to the Michigan Tech University railcamp I attended back in August of 2021, we toured the Eagle Mills mine and the two locomotives that were there. Definitely something I won’t forget anytime soon. Photos in the cabs obviously taken with permission and was given the ok to post on social media, photos were not allowed inside the mine.

The fact they went with two SD40-2’s maybe means they have more traffic projected, definitely a good thing!

Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:31 pm
by SD80MAC
The green Geep has been gone for a while at this point.

Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:41 pm
by Erroneous Monk
Would be cool if these got painted like 1323

Re: Mineral Rail New Engine?

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:22 pm
by AARR