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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 ...
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 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]
Robert Wallace in dry dock. Robert Wallace (Official number 110518) was built in 1882 by William H. Radcliffe of Cleveland, Ohio, for David Wallace of Lorain, Ohio. Her homeport was Lorain. She had a length of 220 feet (67 m), a beam of 36 feet (11 m), and she had a 19.6-foot (6.0 m) depth. [2] She was powered by a small 550 horsepower compound ...
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 ...
The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railway was organized in 1893 as a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (now Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.), the iron ore mining company. From the start the railroad's primary business was the transport of iron ore from the Marquette Iron Range , west of Marquette, to docks on Lake Superior from which the ore ...
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 ...
Samuel P. Ely is a shipwreck in Two Harbors, Minnesota listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It was a schooner that sailed the Great Lakes carrying iron ore, coal, and other bulk freight.