Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: loader

Despite the substantial headframe on the mine's site, this mining location is dominated by the crusher/loader complex which broke the ore into manageable pieces and loaded it on trains. This is the ore loader. Soudan Mine Underground State Park, Tower, Minnesota, 1990.

One last photo from our 1990 visit to Soudan Mine Underground State Park in Tower, Minnesota.

A very different view of the loader at Soudan Mine Underground State Park, Tower, Minnesota. The Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range railroad line ran beneath this structure; these tracks moved the ore from the crusher to the loader. Really a marvelous artifact. Photo taken in 1990 with a Minolta Freedom 100.