Time Line - 1965

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• August: The Soo Line loads its last boat load of Gogebic Range iron ore, which was stockpiled from the second to last operating mine - the Cary - at Montreal, Wisconsin. [LSIOR]

• December 23: DT&I abandons its Petersburg Junction-Lambertville route to Toledo, in favor of trackage rights over the Ann Arbor RR. [IT-2/80]

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• DSS&A depot at Chassell is closed. [SOO-10/1991]

• The D&M adds 2,000 feet of yard tracks at it's Big Cut quarry near Millersburg. [DMAR-1965]

• There are 6,408 miles of railroad in Michigan. [STOV]

• The last iron mine on the Gogebic Range is closed. [LSIOR]

• In 1965, less than 600,000 tones of iron ore where shipped through the Ashland port, which compares to about 9 million tons going out over four ore docks in the 1920's. [LSIOR]

• Pioneer Pellet Plant near Negaunee opens to process iron ore from the Mather B Mine. [IOHT]

• A new International Bridge is opened between Sault Ste. Marie, MI and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It replaces the St. Mary's River ferries which carried travelers for many years. A $40,300,000 project to rebuild the old Poe Lock, built in 1888 to replace the original Harvey Lock which was built in 1855. [BCE-1965-0713]

 Time line Key:

• Railroad event in Michigan
• Event relating to mining
• Event related to car ferries
• Event outside of Michigan
• Improvement in Technology
• Railroad built or extended
• Railroad abandoned and/or removed
• Economic panic or depression