ELS Customers?

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ELS Customers?

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What are the known remaining customers on the ELS?

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Re: ELS Customers?

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I have a list at home. Most of them are logs or pulp wood loading stations. If no one else responds I'll post it later.
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Re: ELS Customers?

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Your lists are always the best. I hope to combine yours with a few others on another forum to crossreference.

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This is gathered from primarily message boards and internet research. A former E&LS employee provided some of the log/pulp wood locations.

Green Bay-Republic
Howard – National Packaging Services: inbound plastic pellets
Howard – ?: outbound waste oil (don't know if they're still active)
Howard – Wisconsin Building Supply: inbound lumber
Abrams – Frank’s Logging: outbound pulpwood logs to L-P in Sagola
Oconto Falls –McDermid: outbound canned vegetables
Oconto Falls – Bay Lakes Cooperative:
• inbound fertilizer
• outbound grain
Coleman – Agventures: inbound fertilizer
Crivitz Jct. – Lakes Gas: inbound liquid petroleum gas
Crivitz Jct. – House Track: outbound pulpwood logs
Amberg – ?: outbound pulpwood infrequently
McConnell Landing – Expera Paper: outbound pulpwood logs to their mills in WI (talks about converting this to a wood chip operation)
Pembine – Precision Lumber: outbound pulpwood logs
East Kingsford – Schneider Iron & Metal: in or out(?)bound scrap metal
Iron Mountain – ?: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Randville - Groveland Plant: outbound tailings (don't know if their shipping). Plant is closed since 198? but tons of tailings remain on site.
Randville – Stora Enso: outbound pulpwood logs to New Page paper mills in WI
Sagola – Louisiana-Pacific:
• inbound liquid epoxy resin
• inbound pulpwood logs
• outbound oriented strand board
Sagola – Team: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Channing – Team: outbound pulpwood logs currently loading on old E&LS line to Escanaba
Floodwood - ?: inbound cement

Channing-Mass
Kelso Jct. – Team: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
WPA Rd. – Team: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Amasa – Team: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Triangle Spur – Pine River Hardwoods: outbound pulpwood logs
Park Siding – Team: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Sidnaw – Team: outbound paint ore
Sidnaw – Team: outbound pulpwood logs
Frost – ?: outbound pulpwood logs infrequently
Rousseau – ?: outbound pulpwood logs (don't know if they still ship)
Mass – ?: outbound pulpwood logs

Marinette – Kimberly-Clark: (don't know if they ship)
• inbound chemicals
• inbound scrap paper
• inbound wood pulp
• outbound tissue pape
Marinette – Chem Design: inbound chemicals

I don't know if CN or E&LS switches these. I also don't know if all the products are shipped by rail, ship or trucks.
Menominee – K & K Warehousing:
• lumber & particle board
• paper products
• pig iron
• wood pulp
Menominee – Dunn Paper:
• inbound paper scrap bales
• outbound linerboard, medium & tubestock
• outbound paper
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Re: ELS Customers?

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I am updating/renovating the E&LS Wiki page. Is this an updated customer list?
https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/ ... e_Superior

Main Division
LP Pulpwood Yard - Mass City, MI - Pulpwood Yard (Served roughly once a month).
Poquette Leasing - Sidnaw, MI - Paint Ore Transload (Loading occurs a few times per year).
E&LS Pulpwood Yard - Sidnaw, MI - Pulpwood Yard
Ottawa Forest Products - Amasa, MI - Sawmill
E&LS Transload Facility - Floodwood, MI - Transload Facility - Currently inactive. Cement went back to trucks.
E&LS Pulpwood Yard - Channing, MI - Pulpwood Yard
Louisiana-Pacific - Sagola, MI - Wood Siding & Sheathing Products‎
Sage Timber - Randville, MI - Pulpwood Yard
Alter Metal Recycling - Kingsford, MI - Scrap Metal Recycling
Precision Lumber - Pembine, WI - Pulpwood Yard
Ahlstrom-Munksjö Pulpwood Yard - Beecher, WI - Pulpwood Yard
E&LS Pulpwood Yard- Crivitz, WI - Pulpwood Yard
Lakes Gas - Crivitz, WI - Propane Supplier
United Cooperative Coleman, WI - Fertilizer Supplier
Oconto County Lumber - Oconto Falls, WI Lumber & Building Materials (Centerbeam Flatcars Transloaded at McDermid.
McDermid Warehousing - Oconto Falls, WI Warehouse Boxcars
United Cooperative - Oconto Falls, WI Grain Elevator Covered Hoppers
LP Pulpwood Yard - Sobieski, WI Pulpwood Yard Pulpwood Flatcars
Wisconsin Building Supply - Green Bay, WI Building Materials Centerbeam Flatcars
NPS - Green Bay, WI Spill Control & Nonwoven Products Covered Hoppers

Escanaba Division
E&LS Railcar Paint Shop - Wells, MI - Railcar Painting
U.P. Propane - Wells, MI - Propane Supplier
A&L Iron & Metal - Escanaba, MI - Scrap Metal Recycling
E&LS Railcar Repair Shops - Escanaba, MI - Railcar Repair

Menominee & Marinette Division
Resolute Forest Products - Menominee, MI - Recycled Kraft Pulp
KK Integrated Logistics - Menominee, MI - Transload & Port Facility
Dunn Paper - Menominee, MI - Paper Products
Kimberly-Clark - Marinette, WI - Paper Towel Products
Fincantieri Marinette Marine - Marinette, WI - Shipbuilding
ChemDesign - Marinette, WI - Agricultural & Specialty Chemicals
KK Integrated Logistics - Marinette, WI - Warehouse

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Re: ELS Customers?

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Thank you for the updated list
NS3322 wrote:
Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:49 pm
I am updating/renovating the E&LS Wiki page. Is this an updated customer list? https://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/ ... e_Superior
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