Great Lakes Ore Docks and Ore Cars
Great Lakes Ore Docks and Ore Cars

Author: Patrick Dorin

Publisher:

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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The Iron Mining Industry was quite extensive throughout the area known as the Lake Superior Iron Ore District. All of the iron ore was transported by rail to a wide number of lake ports on Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. This book lists all of the ore docks constructed on The Great Lakes. Includes photos of the ore docks and ore cars, ore car schematics and pertinent data.

The Missabe Road
The Missabe Road

Author: Frank Alexander King

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780816640836

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"The Missabe Road tells the complete story of the DM&IR: its construction, early operation, line extensions, passenger service, rolling stock, steam locomotives, and today's modern diesels. Frank A. King examines underground and open pit mining operations, modern-day taconite mining, the handling and transportation of ore to the docks, and the loading of boats."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Classic Railroads You Can Model
Classic Railroads You Can Model

Author: Kalmbach Publishing Company

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780890246146

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A compilation of the editor's favorite HO and N scale track plans from two popular out-of-print books, Railroads You Can Model and More Railroads You Can Model.

Iron Ore Transport on the Great Lakes
Iron Ore Transport on the Great Lakes

Author: W. Bruce Bowlus

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0786486554

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The availability of inexpensive steel, so crucial to the United States' emergence as a leading industrial power in the late nineteenth century, relied upon the rise of an ore transport system on the Great Lakes that would feed American industry as a whole and come to alter the face of the region. This detailed history recounts innovations in shipping, the improvement of channels and harbors, the creation of locks, technical advances in loading and unloading equipment, and the ability to attract capital and government support to fund the various projects. When government support was lacking, reinterpretations of the Constitution were introduced to justify federal involvement. These changes, which often functioned symbiotically, represent one of the key untold stories in the spectacular rise of American industry.