The Whiting Division of
New Page /
CoreEnso /
Consolidated Paper
closed on Friday Feb 15, 2011.
Here is a picture as rail operations slowed down a week before the end of paper production.
A black IC engine was working.
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On the south side is the machine room and beater room. Tank cars of clay and boxcars for loading paper rolls would be pushed inside the doors. |
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The north-side tracks were for pulp wood and coal deliveries.
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These cars are gone now.
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And on February 15 was the END.
By the Sunday after rail service stopped,
the rails show rust spots.
Even well-used mainlines can show rust if not used for a day,
but this is the end of business here.
| The pulpwood piles are gone. |
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There are a half-dozen wood chip open top cars sitting on the northwest tracks. Some might be ex- Algoma Central cars that were new in the 1970's. |
| The mill is for sale, but it's not likely to have new owners soon. |
Link to a page about rail operations before the end, Whiting Paper Mill Rails 2011
and more Whiting Paper Mill Rails , with links to my pages of earlier years of mill and rail pictures
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Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures
( the index page is now on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011. And I will have to also keep the Next Generation index up-to-date also )
This page wrote March 2011, with pictures from February 2011.
