Talk:Lakes Subdivision

Moving info from text to the talk page.
The following was put in the text but does not seem appropriate there. I'm moving it to talk for now. --Dmol (talk) 02:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

The BN Lake Superior Division Timetable No. 3 contains an error on page 5 in reference to the Cloquet MP, Diamond Match Spur. Although this spur has been defunct for at least the last 18 years, the MP designation should correctly have read 39.6 (or 39.7 as it reads on page 4) NOT 36.6. This may be less of a typographical error than an error in the predecessor document from which the 1995 version was compiled. There was a spur at 36.6 that allowed access to a gravel pit parallel to the railway line between Scanlon and Carlton Minn. The last remnants of this spur were removed in approximately 1985 when Burlington Northern removed the dual track on that corridor leaving only the one line. The designator 36.6 seemed to be a reference to this gravel pit spur that in the 1995 recension was inadvertently ascribed to the then-existing Diamond Match Co. spur in Cloquet, Minn. It would be interesting to compare this 1995 edition with its vorlage. Incidentally, the PDF URL for footnote number 1 should read SUNDAY APRIL 2, 1995 -not- Sunday April 25, 1995. April 25, 1995 was a Tuesday that year. (redactor MW 25 June 2016)