Iron Ore Rail Cars (Trains): Capacity, Length, Photos
The iron-built, two-axle cars were 8 feet 8 inches long by 8 feet wide and could haul 8 tons of gold or silver ore. Naturally, as the iron ore trade drastically increased when vast amounts of high-grade iron were discovered in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin during the 1840s and 1850s (as well as parts of Minnesota between ...