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News Wire: Taconite plant, mine re-openings good news for CSX, BNSF

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 10:24 AM

REYNOLDS, Ind. — There's good news in the air for the metallic ore business units of BNSF Railway and CSX Transportation as plans were announced in late July to re-open shuttered mining facilities in Minnesota in addition to the opening of a ne...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/08/02-iron-ore-news

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Posted by MidlandMike on Friday, August 4, 2017 8:23 PM

I understand Magnetation was going to sell thier gondola fleet.  I wonder if they were still around to be included in the ERP deal?

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Posted by beaulieu on Saturday, August 5, 2017 1:18 AM

They are still parked in Northern Minnesota. They are too short for most other uses.

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