Location: Escanaba, MI - 1906 Milwaukee Road Dock #2


Type: Timber

Built: 1906

Operated for 30 Years

Owner: Milwaukee & Northern and Milwaukee Road

Length: 1,440 feet

Height Above Water: 69 feet

Pockets: 240 pockets

Ended: 1936 

Reference: [LSIOR] + others


Notes

Prior to the MILW agreement with the E&LS, they hauled their ore to Pembine and operated over the Soo Line to Gladstone. The Soo owned an ore dock at Gladstone and the MILW shipped over the Soo dock. [IOR]


Time Line

1936. Dock use ended after C&NW and MILW pooled ore through the C&NW docks.

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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