Dave your ore train and layout are AWESOME. You beat me to posing today lol. I had posted over on your Blast progress thread with a link to the ore cares lol.
You will need to mix some of the Michigan Iron ore with your normal supplier. 
Thanks for sharing your video with us.
Pops,
If you add photos to your computer by going directly to your iPhone as a storage device, they can be edited and rotated.
Computer->Portable Devices->Pops iPhone->Internal Storage->DCIM
Dave
Dave, Thanks for your help. I am going to try working on it tonight.
RailRide thank you posting your 2 video's. Looks like there were about 50 ish Ore cars in your consist. Looked very cool with all the different viewing angles.
Don thanks for the thought. I was trying to find mostly the Blur GTW and Silver CN ore cars but could not come up with enought for a long train. So thats when I mixed the others into the consist. The DMIR cars will work on our road since we have the CN Diesel with the DMIR on the lower front of the CN cab. I may have to go to painting if I don't find more.
PS: I do like and have the MTH RED CN Ore cars that have the logo up in the top right hand corner of the car.
Any more ore cars to show?
Nice ore trains!
Here are two of mine. I seem to have gone a little crazy with collecting jennys.
I only saw one vid here, but I went to Youtube and watched your other layout videos...great layout!
John when I watched the video I only saw 1 ore consit.
Sorry guys, Here is the other video. It is not as clean as the first. These are all MTs.
Dave
Dave thanks for posting this video.
David
That is one interesting coalbreaker in the background 
Thanks guys!
KC, Thank you!!
I like ore cars! At one point I had 18, but I've thinned the herd. Now down to 12 Railking cars.
Great thread! Love all the videos of those long ore trains.
George
When Lionel first introduced the lowly little ore car, in about 1984, with a Soo Line and a PennCentral car, I thought they were kind of neat and bought two of each. Next year, they cam back with a Canadian National and a Northern Pacific car. The following year they offered a Lehigh Valley car but it was only in a packaged freight set, so I was disappointed and didn't pick up one. They also offered one for their Lionel Club members in a rather gaudy Yellow. Well, as additional cars were offered I bought one of each and then the Gadsden Pacific club started offering them as a fund raiser and I started with them as well. Sometime later I traded two of the extra first year cars for the LV set car so I did get all of them after all.
I'm really not a collector of sorts any longer but for whatever reason I continued to purchase Lionel ore cars down through the years and I believe that I now have nearly all of them except for the few that Lionel made in die-cast metal. There are now 70 in my collection and, of course, I'm running out of room for more!
I never run them on my layout because the conglomeration of all the different road names would certainly not be prototypical, but they fit neatly along the I beam supporting the ceiling of the basement.
Oh well, some guys have collected all the beer cars that have been made!
Paul Fischer
Paul I think you should run your ore cars and enjoy then, I have certain cars I like also but I can't find enough of them to make up a real long train so I have to mix some of them together.
On one of the pages before this ome Rigatonie Express (Joe) posted a picture of about 100 ore cars that looked quite nice.
I have tried to find the MTH Blue GTW, the Silver K-Line CN, The Blue K-Line & Lionel Ontario Northland, The MTH & Lionel CP RAIL(BLACK) AND THE Premier MTH RED CN yjay has the CN logo in the corner of the car.
Thank you for your posting and hope you will share spme pictures of your ore cars.
Popsrr: I guess I could do that. I did run some of them back when I only had 15 or 20. Hate to think how long the train would be with 70 cars, even shorties. I have them all displayed on the basement girder but they now extend down 3 or 4 shelves below. Must be close to 50 feet of cars and I don't think the layout could handle that. Probably don't have an engine that could walk off with that heavy a load, either.
I display them behind one of the old, 1987 or so, Rock Island 4-8-4 and I know that engine wouldn't pull them all. I've run out of display track so I suppose that next I'll need to ditch that 4-8-4 and the caboose to make way for 3 or 4 more cars.
Paul Fischer
Paul maybe consider picking your favorite 10 cars and only run them and take some pictures. Thanks for your reply and considering a sun of a few cars.
I have mine in storage for now so all I can contribute is this blurry cell phone photo of a real ore train being lined up to load a "Laker" in Superior Bay.
Thanks for posting the "Real Deal". Do you remember what Road name was on the ore cars?
Speaking of real ore trains, CN had a runaway a few days ago at Two Harbors, MN, on the ex Missabe Road line. I believe they wrecked 76 loaded ore cars. Luckily the crew injuries were not serious, as they jumped out into 3 feet of snow.
JOHN23, Thanks for the heads up on the CN Ore train.
TWO HARBORS, Minn. (AP) — Canadian National is investigating what caused a train loaded with iron ore pellets to derail in Two Harbors.
CN spokesman Patrick Waldron says 76 of 107 train cars piled up in a rail yard Thursday afternoon. In addition, Waldon says another 17 cars loaded with pellets parked on an adjacent track were hit and derailed.
Two of four workers on the train were injured and taken from the scene by ambulance. Waldron says their injuries appear to be minor.
He says heavy equipment has been brought in to clear the tracks in the CN rail yard.
TWO HARBORS, Minn. - Canadian National is investigating what caused a train loaded with iron ore pellets to derail in Two Harbors.
CN spokesman Patrick Waldron says 76 of 107 train cars piled up in a rail yard Thursday afternoon. In addition, Waldon says another 17 cars loaded with pellets parked on an adjacent track were hit and derailed.
Two of four workers on the train were injured and taken from the scene by ambulance. Waldron says their injuries apparently aren't life threatening.
He says heavy equipment has been brought in to clear the tracks in the CN rail yard.
Lake County Sheriff Carey Johnson says the derailment happened just after 1 p.m. on a bend in the tracks in Two Harbors.
Wow, quite a mess! Trains Magazine's web site has more details, but no pictures.
John, I posted a little more about the accident. Iappears that there was a run away train. Not once but twice. The grade was almost 3% and had 3 units on it when the first run away happened for more than 4 miles. The second runaway that ended uo in the crash had two crews(4 prople) on board. The road crew and a yard engime and 2 person yard crew.
Here's one of my first ore trains when we first got started building my layout. Not much to see. I now have 60 DM&IR ore cars. Wonder how many this engine will be able to pull? Most likely will split up the cars between and empty train with SDs and loaded train with a Yellowstone.
Jeff B. Haertlein , Jeff very nice coal drag. WOW 60 DM&IR ore cars will make a wonderful looking train. I think over on Page 1 there are a couple of Coal drags with near a 100 ore cars. I think they are Video's. Thank you for posting.
I have an issue with my Iphone pictures. Sometime the are in the correct orentation and sometime the are turned 90 degrees.
Popsrr, I learned this the hard way. Make sure the two buttons that turn the sound up and down, are pointed up when you take a picture. The iPHone uses the sound buttons to determine which way is up.
Steve thanks for your reply. Are you saying that the long dimension of the phone is Horz?
That does have both buttons pointing up.
That means NO LONG dim POINTING UP. i ALWAYS TOOK PICTURES BOTH WAYS AND THEY WERE A MESS. THANK YOU STEVE
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