Mineral Range Railroad Operator Clint Jones Passes Away

Daylight25 · **Joined:** Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:00 pm **Posts:** 187

Clint Jones, operator of the Mineral Range Railroad, has passed away at the age of 79 years old on April 19, 2024

Link To Trains Magazine Article:

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews ... road-dies/

wesp · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:59 pm

Does Clint own the sharks?

bigjim4life · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:52 pm

wesp wrote:

Does Clint own the sharks?

I think you're thinking of the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad - also in Michigan.

SteamEnthusiast4000 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:55 pm

First and foremost, I'm so sorry for the loss to the family and to the rail preservation community. May Mr. Jones forever rest in peace. God bless you.

Second, I know that the Mineral Range Railroad purchased Soo Line F-21-S class 2-8-0 #2425 in 2018 and moved it to Ishpeming in 2019. Do they still have plans to restore #2425 to operation after things settle down?

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews ... relocated/

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:07 am

bigjim4life wrote:

wesp wrote:

Does Clint own the sharks?

I think you're thinking of the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad - also in Michigan.

The late Mr. Jones never owned the Baldwin Sharks (that anyone ever claimed--though sometimes in these cases "ownership" is a fuzzy moving target.....), but in recent years he did own (or at least was said to have owned) ex-C&NW 4-6-0 175 (now at Steam Railroading Institute), former PRR doodlebug 4668, a former CB&Q gas-electric car, and some other pieces. A search on "Clint" in this forum will pull up past discussions over twenty years or more.

Some of his former pieces, like C&NW 175, ended up elsewhere, and a few other pieces are now supposedly in the "top secret lair" somewhere in Michigan's U.P. along with the Baldwin Sharks and/or other preservation jewels/oddities........

Daylight25 · **Joined:** Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:00 pm **Posts:** 187

SteamEnthusiast4000 wrote:

First and foremost, I'm so sorry for the loss to the family and to the rail preservation community. May Mr. Jones forever rest in peace. God bless you.

Second, I know that the Mineral Range Railroad purchased Soo Line F-21-S class 2-8-0 #2425 in 2018 and moved it to Ishpeming in 2019. Do they still have plans to restore #2425 to operation after things settle down?

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews ... relocated/

I'm unsure about 2425 currently. It's still in storage at Blueberry Mine as of 2021