C&NW: (Satellite)
Coal Dock: (Satellite, I'm guessing. The topo map below shows this did have rail service.)
This town has (had?) another concrete relic: the C&NW coaling tower.
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| One of 36 photos posted by Ashland Historical Society Museum Here are some photos that Ocky took back in about 2012 of the Soo Line ore dock, including graffiti. Enjoy. Jim. |
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| Ashland Historical Society Museum posted Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad ore docks in Ashland, Wisconsin. This is probably in the 1880s. As you can see, the boats are outfitted with sails at this time and possibly some had steam power. These docks were located on the eastern end of Ashland, where later the three Chicago & Northwestern ore docks would be located. Enjoy. Jim. David Schauer shared Nice flashback to the early years of ore shipping through Ashland. Robert J Envall: Thanks for sharing, David. I didn’t know that ore was shipped and mined from Wisconsin. (Did they ship pellets)? I grew up in Two Harbors, and we shipped pellets from the Iron Range/Babbit: My Dad worked at Reserve mining in Silver Bay (not sure where they got the mined ore, but they converted it to pellets and shipped onsite.) David Schauer: Robert J Envall No processed ore pellets from Ashland. Last boat loaded in 1965 and by that time rail shipments to Escanaba were proving successful. Iron ore off the Gogebic Range. James Torgeson: David Schauer Last boat was the Str. Bethlehem that loaded for the Bethlehem Lackawanna Plant. |
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| Ashland Historical Society Museum posted November 1919 - Soo Line Railroad ore dock on the left (900 feet long at this point) with the Wisconsin Central Railroad ore dock on the right. The ore boat Harvey D. Goulder is at the Soo Line and the W.C. Richardson and R.L. Agassiz are at the Wisconsin Central. Enjoy. Jim. Kent Rengo shared James Torgeson shared |
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| Jeff Cate, Apr 2018 |
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| Ashland Historical Society Museum posted 1929 - The newly extended Soo Line Railroad oredock, Ashland, Wisconsin, making it over 1800 feet long. Can anyone tell if any of the boathouses in this photo still exist? Enjoy. Jim. Richard Fiedler shared |
The remnant we see today would have been the closer long dock. There are still remnants of the other one under the water.
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| Jeff Cate, Nov 2012 |
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| James Torgeson shared Building the Soo Line ore dock in Ashland, Wisconsin on Lake Superior. Ore from the Gogebic Iron Range was shipped via this dock until 1965. The last ore cargo was loaded on the Str. Bethlehem, bound for Lackawanna. The dock has been demolished to the water level and will soon be a public recreational pier. |
Remnants of one of the C&NW ore docs still exist.
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The tracks going east were the C&NW and the tracks going south were the Soo.
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| 1947 Ashland Quadrangle @ 1:62,500 |
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| Ashland Historical Society Museum posted 1954 - Chicago and North Western Oredock - Ashland, Wisconsin Moose Mihalak: An old Cliffs boat! James Torgeson shared The C&NW Ashland dock handled iron ore from the Gogebic Iron Range until 1960. |
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| Terry Krawczyk comment on a share of a post of seven photos and a video of the 2012 demolition, cropped |
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| Comments on a post https://mywisconsineyes.com/Culture/ashland-ore-dock.html |
James Torgeson shared
Demolishing the former Soo Line ore dock at Ashland, Wisconsin, which handled ore from the Gogebic Iron Range. The final ore cargo was loaded on the Str. Bethlehem in 1965.
Michael Maitland: Read a few years back that there was a company looking at a rich deposit at the southern end of the range, still viable to mine.
James Torgeson: Michael Maitland Yeah, but I haven’t heard anything about that lately.
A post about ore punchers who worked both here and at other ore docks
James Torgeson shared
Frank Castro: Had a car tip over on the bf trestle because one side of the car was frozen. When the car emptied, the ore frozen on one side caused it to tip over.
33 construction photos and a history via a share "The new Soo Line ore dock would become the first all-concrete ore dock in the world and largest of its kind at the time. " This replaced an ore dock made of wood.
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| Marine Historical Society of Detroit posted A MHSD member, James Semon, gifted the organization a collection of ship photos taken from about 1957 into the 1970's by Willis A. McCaleb. Mr. McCaleb was at one point the official corporate photographer for the Nickel Plate Railroad. Here is a random sample taken from the portion of the collection which has already been scanned. The Augustus B. Wolvin unloading coal at the C. Reiss Coal Company Dock No. 2 at Ashland, WI in 1959. Willis McCaleb photo/MHSD. Per the "Ship Masters Association Directory of 1962", the unloading bridge crane at the dock was built by Mead-Morrison, used a 5 ton clam shell bucket (2 ton for cleanup) and had a capacity to unload 3,000 tons in a 10 hour shift. The dock itself had a capacity to store 250,000 tons of coal and had a 20 foot depth of water alongside. The Wolvin had a capacity to haul 10,800 tons of coal in its four holds, which would mean a 36 hour minimum unload time if fully loaded. David Schauer shared A wonderful image from Ashland. If you have an interest in Great Lakes vessel history, I recommend joining the MHSD. |
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| 1942 Ashland Quad @ 42,000 |
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| 1 of 8 pages of a book posted by Thomas Becher in Soo Line Historical & Technical Society Group |
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