Pulpwood and Iron Ore: The C&NW Ashland District
Chicago & Northwestern Train 216, the eastbound Flambeau 400, is arriving at the Antigo station, opposite the busy freight yard. Pulpwood and Iron Ore: The C&NW Ashland District By Dave Rickaby/photos by the author Don Drum, although one not quickly to beat his own “drum,” is quite animated when it comes to his fascination of modeling the northwoods of his home state of Wisconsin and in particular the Chicago & North Western Railway’s Ashland District. As a very impressionable young boy, starting in 1955, he spent eleven summers at Camp Mohawk near Rhinelander, Wis. Each trip there and...