Quebec Iron and Titanium - Havre St Pierre Quebec


I was going to eventually do a stand alone post about the Quebec Iron and Titanium Railway in eastern Quebec but haven't gotten around to it yet.  In a way I beat myself to the punch.  

A few years ago Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine had a layout design contest for their TOMA (The One Module Approach) method and I put in an entry.  I didn't win the contest and figured that the entry had gone away into the ether.  

I was reading the April 2022 issue (it's an online magazine so "issue" is in digital form) and pretty much spit out my coffee when I got to the "Coming next  month" section and saw my panoramic photo of a ship being loaded at the ore dock along with a teaser about the QIT. 

MRH did a good job on the article, and it has a lot of prototype photos so I figure it can take the place of my planned QIT blog post.  You can find the article here: https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/quebec-iron-titanium-railway-12353820?pid=1332635156 .  I hope you enjoy something about this relatively obscure mining operation.  


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