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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