The absolute northern terminus of the M&N main line at the shore of Lake Superior, on the east bank of the mouth of the Ontonagon River, at Ontonagon, Mich., in 1887. A flatcar is spotted next to the Harvey Bissell. The Harvey Bissel, U. S. No. 11281, was built as a barquentine, or barkentine, at Toledo, Ohio, in 1866, and plied the Great Lakes for 39 years. It was converted to a 3-masted schooner in 1874. At some point it was converted to a 2-masted towbarge/schooner-barge. This photograph depicts it with two masts, but some references state the conversion was made in 1891. It was grounded near Bell, Mich., in a storm on 24 November 1905. On 27 November it was freed and towed to Alpena, where its cargo of lumber was salvaged. Then the Harvey Bissel was towed out into the bay and sunk. The building to the right is the Sisson & Lilly sawmill, with a massive pile of logs on its dock, on the west bank of the mouth of the Ontonagon River. The O&BR, later M&N, depot stands about half of a mile to the southeast, out-of-frame to the left. Uncredited photograph from Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Bulletin No. 121, October 1969.