Location: Escanaba, MI - C&NW Empty Yard

The C&NW's Empty Yard was a 4 track yard used for storing empty ore cars awaiting return to the mines from docks #5 and #6. The yard was located on a wye track just west of the ore docks and the Ishpeming main line (running underneath).


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Time Line

1891. The Ore subdivision, between Antoine and Escanaba was built by the Schlesinger syndicate, along with dock #5. This empty yard was also built approximately at that time. Within a year of construction, the operation was taken over by the C&NW.

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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