Location: Escanaba, MI - 1901 Milwaukee Road Dock #1


Type: Timber

Built: 1901

Operated for 35 Years

Owner: Milwaukee & Northern, then MILW

Length: 1,440 feet

Height Above Water: 66.5 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

1901. May 17. The St. Paul ore docks began operation today, the steamer H.H. Brown taking the first cargo for Cleveland. [PHDH-1901-0517]

1901. Dock built. Ore comes down the E&LS from Channing.

1936. The MILW moved to a pooling arrangement with C&NW using the C&NW docks at Escanaba.

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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