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| Keywords: Photograph of Loading Docks at Two Harbors, Minnesota - NARA - 2127490.jpg Scope and content Original caption Loading docks at Two Harbors Minn where iron ore is loaded onto Lake Superior boats Boats coming in for a load of iron bring coal Note the clam-shell bucket in the air dropping into a boat The cars on the trestle are run by electricity without drivers General notes The original caption is incorrect This is the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad coal facility at Agate Bay in Two Harbors Minnesota The boat is having coal unloaded The tram cars are on a continuous cable drive system that loops them around to the bridge crane that covers the storage field The storage field could hold 150 000 tons of mine run coal The concrete towers are a crushing and holding facility The large locomotives had worm gear coal feeders and could not handle mine run coal Each tower could hold 10 000 tons of crushed coal I am sure the Forest Service has interest in this photograph because of the volume of pulpwood logs on flat cars next to the coal towers Mel Sando Lake County Historical Society 2127490 Local identifier 218856 Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 Eastern Region 1965 - Most Recent <br /> Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry 1881 - 07/01/1901 Predecessor NARA-Place Superior National Forest Lake Minnesota forest 4075007 47 75 -91 5 <br /> NARA's Great Lakes Region Chicago NRDA 7358 South Pulaski Road Chicago IL 60629-5898 1927-07-25 Record group Record Group 95 Records of the Forest Service 1870 - 2008 Record group ARC 424 Historic Photographs compiled ca 1880 - ca 1970 Series ARC 1812856 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier 218856 Other versions <gallery> File Photograph_of_Loading_Docks_at_Two_Harbors _Minnesota_-_NARA_-_2127490 tif tif File Photograph_of_Loading_Docks_at_Two_Harbors _Minnesota_-_NARA_-_2127490 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Lake freighters Two Harbors Minnesota Steel industry Loading rail freight Ore docks 1927 in Minnesota Duluth and Iron Range Railroad | ||||
