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The grain elevator in the foreground is one of the grain elevators that is still on
Rice's Point. However, the Port has bought it, and it plans to remove it.
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David Schauer posted
Grain loading in Duluth at the Capital elevator in 1973. Canadian Hunter is the large laker while a smaller Kinsman boat also loads. Basgen Photography
Jody Aho: James E. Ferris is the Kinsman boat, in her next-to-last season of operation.
Rick Aylsworth: Looks like the former coalyard in the foreground has been cleaned up, bridge crane rails still in place.
Dennis DeBruler shared
Capital elevator is the one in the foreground. The wooden elevator burned in Jan 1978. The elevator is now Duluth Lake Port Storage with another bank of concrete silos to replace the storage of the wooden elevator. |
The elevator on the right is an earlier version of this elevator. The elevator on the left became part of the
new Cargill grain elevator.
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Duluth’s Clarkson Coal Dock along the east side of Rice’s Point, ca. 1915. (Image: Zenith City Press) |
This elevator is in the middle of this photo. The other elevators are either gone or have been replaced by more modern elevators.
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Howard Pletcher posted
Here's a history of the lake-front elevators in Duluth, MN. Photo is from the 1930s.
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David Schauer commented on a post
Note new concrete silos are well under construction to make up for the lost storage. |
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| 2022 photo by Jacob Wickman |
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| Photo provided by Jacob Wickman, Credit Aquatic Sciences Center of Madison Wisconsin |
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Photo provided by Jacob Wickman, Credit Aquatic Sciences Center of Madison Wisconsin
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Photo provided by Jacob Wickman, Credit Aquatic Sciences Center of Madison Wisconsin
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David Schauer
posted two photos with the comment: "For the past year or so the port has been doing some transloading of tank cars both on their property near the Ash Grove cement facility and also on the AGP Elevator site that they now own (the elevator is slated to be demolished in the near future). I believe this is asphalt from the Cenovus refinery in Superior that is trucked to Duluth and loaded into tank cars. The logistics side of my brain can't wrap itself around trucking to Duluth versus simply loading the tank cars at the refinery. Is the BNSF switch rate that high? CPKC was delivering a few tank cars this morning at the AGP site. Duluth, MN - May 30, 2024"
Daniel Holbrook: Since Staggers Act [1980], rail traffic is via contracts. My guess is BNSF did not want to handle the switch move from Cenovus to CP account switch crew expenses and no road-haul move of the loaded cars.
Kent Rengo: Lake Superior Paper I believe did something similar to save money when they trucked finished paper products from West Duluth to the Port Terminal for transloading into boxcars.
Ty Webb: Nearly every car from the refinery is sent South to NTW, or interchanged with the UP and CN. No idea why they are transloading in Duluth.
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