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TWO HARBORS ORE DOCKS: Dock No. 1 is located on the right, Dock No. 2 is in the middle and Dock No. 6 is on the left.

Dock No. 6 was constructed from 1907-1909 and was the first steel ore dock built on the Great Lakes. The dock was designed by the American Bridge Company and constructed by the Barnett & Record Company. The dock was a vital link for the rich iron mines in northern Minnesota. The dock is located at the terminus of the Duluth & Iron Range Railway line (later Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway).

The dock is 962' long, 51' wide and 74' high. The dock has 148 pockets with ship loading spouts along each side. Ore loaded into vessels through mechanically operated trapdoors at the bottom of the pockets flowing by gravity through the openings. The pockets were filled by railroad hopper ore cars from the four tracks on the dock. These four tracks were connected with two tracks on the approach trestles connected to the railroad yard. The capacity of each pocket is 300 tons thus yielding a total storage capacity of 44,440 tons.

The dock is no longer in use and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The connecting trestles were removed in 1978. The two nearby docks are operational though only dock number two is used because it has been modified to accommodate Taconite pellets.

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Taken on: October 19, 2012

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