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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum
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1950's Overview
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- Mid-1950's: The NYC
demolishes its Woodward Avenue station on the Detroit to Bay City
branch. [MRC-4/1983]
- SNAPSHOT: Iron ore from the
Menominee and Marquette iron ranges at Escanaba can arrive frozen,
which makes dumping into the ore dock difficult in winter months.
The C&NW uses steam heat from two streamlined Hudsons (which once
handled Union Pacific passenger trains between Chicago and Omaha)
for thawing the frozen ore. Later, the railroad installs an
electric infrared thawing shed to thaw the ore. [LSIOR]
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