Marquette, Michigan: Lower Harbor.
The old Iron Ore loading dock. It is 1000 feet, or 287 meters, long and is no longer in use. Railroad cars used to be pushed out on rails on the top of the dock, and the ore would be discharged from the rail cars into the hoppers in the dock. From here, the chutes on the side of the dock would be lowered into freighters and the ore would run through the chutes into the cargo holds of the freighters.
View from the north.
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