Like the C Reiss Coal Dock in Duluth, MN, this dock transfers coal from ships to trains.
I wonder if this boat unloaded at this dock.
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| Julie Zabell posted Arthur Anderson backing up down the Fox River downtown Green Bay towards the bay. [Judging by the road grid. the dolphins and the pleasure boats in the foreground, it is going under the Walnut Street Bridge.] |
I learned the name of this coal dock while studying the Mason Street Bridge because of this photo caption.
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| 2009 Photo by Robert Thompson via BridgeHunter-1973 Across the river are the C. Reiss coal docks, where ships dump their coal cargoes. |
I'm saving a satellite image because coal is quickly becoming history and these piles will be disappearing.
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| Satellite |
C&NW, Milwaukee and Green Bay & Western all had tracks that accessed the yard along the river here. The details don't matter because all of the remaining routes are now owned by CN.
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| 1954 Green Bay West Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
The smokestacks in the right background belong to Georgia-Pacific Broadway Plant.
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| Street View |
Judging from a satellite image of the G-P Broadway plant, the M/V Arthur Anderson may have unloaded coal here and/or the coal dock.
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