Port Stanley Pier and Ferry Slip
The southern terminus for freight operations on the L&PS was the small yard on the pier at Port Stanley. Looking south, the ice house and grain elevator are on the left with a lumber yard and oil supply business served by the siding on the far right.
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L1 switches a string of hoppers in the yard near the customs warehouse. The fertilizer plant can be just seen beyond the warehouse.
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The ferry slip was located at the far south end of the yard. Heavy stone filled cribs counterbalanced the outboard end of the dock allowing it to float with the ferry.
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The overhead wire ends well before the slip dock to prevent the heavy locomotive from overloading the structure. Here L1 uses two idler flats to reach into the hold of No 2.
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Marquette and Bessemer car ferry No 2 delivered loaded coal hoppers from Conneaut, Ohio to the slip dock at Port Stanley. Built in 1910 by the American Shipbuilding Co, No 2 was 338 feet long, carrying 30 freight cars on four tracks in her covered deck. This is actually the second No 2. Her predecessor, also called No 2, was lost in a storm on Lake Erie on Feb 8, 1909. Car ferry service to Port Stanley was eventually discontinued in 1932. No 2 went through several owners and rebuilds, finally being scrapped in the 1990s.
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