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Many docks have been torn down or abandoned, but the Cleveland-Cliffs dock, one of the docks at Marquette, Michigan, recently loaded its 400 millionth ton of ore after 90 years of service. (The other dock, built later by Merritt-Chapman & Scott for the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway (DSS&A) was taken out of service in 1971.The largest dock of the type in the world exist in Superior, Wisconsin, as part of BNSF's Allouez Taconite Facility. The docks are still off limits, because the conveyor belt that feeds the present day BNSF dock runs through the facility.) Ore docks are mentioned in popular culture, at least one high school athletic team, the Ashland, Wisconsin Oredockers takes their name from them, and they have been mentioned in song.
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