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The great majority came by lake boats. Those vast piles of coal (which I can remember while growing up in Milwaukee) along the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers, and on Jones Island, were all unloaded from lake boats. <br /> <br />There may have been small amounts from Indiana (source: CTH&SE) via Milwaukee Road, and from southern Illinois ( from C&NW, IC or CB&Q shippers)(in the latter 2 cases, via connections with MILW or C&NW). <br /> <br />Milwaukee Road Historical Society publications have noted that lake-boat coal was unloaded on the west bank of the Milwaukee River, below the North Avenue dam and close to the Humboldt Yard, and shipped to "inland" Wisconsin points via Milwaukee Road during the time period in question.
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