Milwaukee Freight House: (Satellite)
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The same aerial photo that had the freight house also had part of the Ford Factory.
Ford: (Satellite)
E&LS = Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad
Marty Bernard posted two photos with the comment: "Iron Mountain, MI Depot in 1992, Karl Miller photo."
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| Mark Hinsdale posted Ken Draper: Iron Mtn. MI.... my town! The depot is used for storage by the owners, the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad. [I'm glad a shortline owns it. I'll bet a Class I railroad would have torn down the train order signal.] |
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| Greg Bunce posted The Iron Mountain, Michigan depot on a rainy day June 26, 1982. |
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| Greg Bunce posted Iron Mountain, Michigan passenger station, no date. From the Alpha-Mastodon Historical Society |
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| Greg Bunce posted The Iron Mountain, Michigan freight house in June 1973. This was the original passenger station and was moved one block south when the new station was built in 1914. It burned to the ground June 17, 1987 from unknown causes. |
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| Aug 12, 1938 @ 20,000; AR1B00000280096 |
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| Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted This time we are looking at a postcard photo of the street side of the C&NW's Iron Mountain, Michigan depot and downtown. Note the unusual round crossing guard shanty at the lower left of the photo. Iron Mountain with all the iron mines surrounding it made the C&NW a lot of money. Junior Farmer: Hexagon, six sided crossing shanties. Typical, cuz curved glass is expensive and round structures are more difficult to make. Janet Fairchild: And the Depot is still there |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Janet's comment I'm guessing it is now the Bijou Lovely gift shop. https://maps.app.goo.gl/d8N73FubrxaQvtoTA |
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| 1955 Iron Mountain Quad @ 24,000 |
It appears from the topo map that Antoine Yard was by the wye for the three C&NW "spokes."
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| safe_image for John W. Barriger Flickr James Bennett: This would have been pulling the loaded cars off the Milw.Rd.transfer onto the Mainline of the Wye then the units were run around the wye and put onto the other end for movement to Escanaba Ore yard . [Some comments include additional photos of C628s.] |
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| Comments on the safe_image |
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Ford Factory
This explains the industry we see in the lower-left corner of the above topo map.
Greg Bunce posted three photos with the comment:
The biggest shipper on the Milwaukee Road in Iron Mountain after the iron mines gradually closed after World War I was the Ford Motor Company. Ford owned thousands of acres of timber lands in the Upper Peninsula and shipped thousands of carloads of logs off the Ontonagon Branch to it's plant in Kingsford where they were sawed up for car parts starting in 1921 for Model T's. Eventually as cars used more steel in their bodies the plant transitioned to building Woodie Station Wagon bodies. During World War II the plant built gliders for the Army Air Force. In 1951 the plant produced it's last car body and closed as starting in 1952 Ford went to all steel bodies. In 1954 the plant was sold and various businesses took over portions of the plant and continued to use rail up into the 1980's. As a side note, if you have ever bought Kingsford Charcoal, it was originally produced at this plant from wood waste.
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I wonder how many of these buildings are still being used.
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The same aerial photo that had the freight house also had part of the Ford Factory.
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| Aug 12, 1938 @ 20,000; AR1B00000280096 |
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