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Cinders And Timber D&NE RR Co logging railroads in northeast MN
Cinders And Timber D&NE RR Co
A Birds eye view of logging railroads in northeastern Minnesota yesterday and today by Frederick G. Harrison
Soft Cover Last page has writing along the lower edge. Foxing
Copyright 1967
NORTHERN MINNESOTA has become a great tourist area since the end of the second world war. It's vast areas of wooded land and many thousands of lakes has made it a prime summer vacation, hunting and fishing area. It is rewarding to all who come to it because it is a true wilderness area, rich in beauty and in legend.
From the early days of the voyageurs with their fur trade to the discovery of iron ore and the utilization of its once vast timber resources, Minnesota has played an important part in the growth and development of our nation.
When one comes to this part of the country he is soon aware of the presence of the legends of the past glories of the state. As he rides along the magnificent North Shore and ventures into the narrow roads into the woods, he becomes more and more aware of the past. Many stories of the good old days of logging and the railroads of the early days soon reach his ears and the spell of the northwoods is upon him.
Tales of an old railroad engine that still sits intact in the woods are told. No one seems to know where this engine is and no one seems to have seen it personally, hut many seem to know of someone else who has seen this mysterious engine and so, of course, it must be so.
More directly, many people have come across old buildings, mile posts and ties still visible in the woods.
Close observation will soon produce cinders from the mighty old logging engines and great stumps that is all that remains of the timber that made all of this come to pass.
Having grown up in Minnesota and living with the legends of Paul Bunyan and his mighty crew gave me a curiosity about these old railroads and the logging camps. Where did they go? How could they so com pletely disappear?
Perhaps the fact that I spent most of my summers as a young boy with my grandparents in Menominee, Michigan, had something to do with my interest in railroading and in logging. My grandfather, Mr. T. P. Adams, was a Milwaukee Road engineer and was my idol. Frequent rides in the cab of the locomotive made a lasting impression on me that has never diminished.
Stories from the men of the Milwaukee Road in Menominee and the crews of the old Wisconsin and Michigan Road filled my boyhood imagination with wonder that such men could have ever lived. They created in me a curiosity and also a respect for the rugged men who helped build a nation.
This interest was rekindled a few years ago when I was in Grand Marais, Minnesota, and was handed a map of the tourist area. Close inspection of this map showed a number of old abandoned railroads! I lost no time at all in taking off in my car to find these lost wonders and to see what there was to sec.
Going from Grand Marais along Devil's Track Lake, I soon came upon an obvious old railroad bed. This became more and more apparent as I came upon old spurs going off to nowhere, and tics rotting in the sun. Picking up an occasional rusty spike finished the job for me and started me off on a quest for the story of the old roads and the logging industry that made them necessary. This book is the result.
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