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Caption: BMEX brings up the rear on 422 today, being recently worked on in Falls Creek Jct, Pa at Brookville Equipment. Interesting fact, the Carol Mine Railway was the worlds first fully automated railway and also the last electric operation in Canada. " A 5.7 mile long non-common carrier railway connects Canada's largest iron ore mine and concentrator with the QNS&L at Labrador City. It was the world's first fully automated railway " ( Old Time Trains )
For some more photos of this unique operation and their roster, check below. http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/nl/gallery1.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMe9Zhlm-M
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Very unique catch.
Awesome photo! Getting different results about it being the worlds first automated railway? What year was that? Interesting stuff
Great catch Carson—I’ve been missing all the special movements on CN422 through Bayview recently.
Interesting comparing this image to the photo on page 100 of the Diesel Spotters Guide Update. The guide shows an SW1200MG built for Iron Ore Co. of Canada. The only real similarities are the Blomberg trucks and that they are both electric. The BMEX 520 looks to have a little more muscle.
Look right —-> Carson- what is with the NS unit ?
While working with a new snow clearing machine at the Iron Ore Company of Canada in Labrador City, NL on November 2, 2005, I snapped remote control locomotive IOC 518 bringing a loaded ore train into the dumper building. The shot is from inside the cab of the snow machine and is not of the quality acceptable to RP. I’ll see if I can get it posted somewhere and I’ll then come back and leave a link where it can be viewed.