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Location: Wells, MI - Milwaukee Road Ore Yard
The Milwaukee Road used the Escanaba & Lake Superior main line on a trackage rights agreement to bring ore cars from Channing to their two ore docks at Wells. Coming south on the E&LS, the Milwaukee Road diverged on to their own track and had a marshalling yard, approximately 1/2 mile west of the E&LS yard and roundhouse. At the south end of this yard, tracks curved east to the two Milwaukee Road-owned ore docks (#1 and #2).
This operation ended in the late 1930's when the MILW and C&NW created an ore pooling agreement and began using the C&NW docks at Escanaba.
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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