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The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway (DM&IR) (reporting mark DMIR), informally known as the Missabe Road, [1] was a railroad operating in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin that used to haul iron ore and later taconite to the Great Lakes ports of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minnesota. Control of the railway was acquired on May 10, 2004, by the ...
The largest dock of the type in the world exist in Superior, Wisconsin as part of BNSF's Allouez Taconite Facility, however, these docks have been abandoned since 1978. Ore docks in Duluth, MN, [citation needed] and Two Harbors, MN, [citation needed] are still in service and operated by Canadian National Railway and Lake Superior and Ishpeming ...
One of the two 4-8-0 locomotives owned by the IR&HB. They were later sold to the Algoma Central Railway. The Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad (IR&HB) is a defunct railroad constructed to haul iron ore in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula during the 1890s. Financial and engineering problems prevented the railroad's operation; it remains an unusual ...
The Honors Train departs Eagle Mills and runs to the ore dock and returns. Several cars were used from E&LS and Lake Superior Railroad Museum with diesels supplied by the LS&I railroad. [42] A coach seen running in the train, marked Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. (ELS marks), #1001 and City of Horicon was also seen in several year's trains. [43]
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), a transcontinental line, took control of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic in 1888. In 1892-94, CPR funds financed the construction of the DSS&A westward from the Keweenaw Peninsula to Duluth. During the 1890s, the timber industry reached the peak of its operations on the Lake Superior shoreline properties ...
Cramer Tunnel opened in 1957 after LTV Steel blasted a tunnel to connect Hoyt Lakes taconite plant and the location of its ore dock at Taconite Harbor on Lake Superior, from which the taconite was shipped to eastern steel mills. [2] The tunnel was used consistently from its opening to 2001, when LTV Steel went bankrupt and closed their ore dock ...
July 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM. A judge has temporarily handed over the operation of Superior Shores Resort north of Duluth to a caretaker after its owner, who also ran nearby Lutsen Lodge until it ...
Duluth Ore Docks and freighters circa 1900–1915 Aerial Bridge ca. 1920, as a ferry bridge before conversion to a vertical-lift bridge. For the first half of the 20th century, Duluth was an industrial port boom town dominated by its several grain elevators, a cement plant, a nail mill, wire mills, and the Duluth Works plant. Handling and ...