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August 1941. "Hull-Rust-Mahoning, world's largest open pit iron mine, near Hibbing, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
I like the sections of Snap-Track sitting there, waiting to be added to the layout!
Interesting to contrast this photo with the "Moving Tracks" one today, in which the usual sleepers appear to be substituted with dirt berms.
Somewhere nearby, the infant Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is starting down the road to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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