Does anyone know anything about a c. 1930s Buick we found north of Thursday Bay on the Canadian side? Enquiring minds etc.

Yup. What would you like to know? Not for sale, in case you're looking for a winter beater.

The car was driven there in the winter, used for power at a logging camp. The car is located in what is called Cadillac narrows.

It is always funny to me. We are out in the woods in the boonies, miles from any roads, and what do you stumble across? A vehicle. Can't remember how many times that's happened to me.
Someone just had to be rescued again from the old bus in AK that was in the movie. Into The Wild, off the stampeed trail.

I was a kid growing up in Colorado. We used to fish a lake, well above 12,000 feet elevation, that took us hours to get to in our Jeep. At the site of the lake was an old gold mine, complete with an ancient vehicle. Packed in by mule, piece by piece, in the early years of the last century. I would bet it's still there. I spent hours "driving" this beauty.

quote ellahallely: "The car was driven there in the winter, used for power at a logging camp. The car is located in what is called Cadillac narrows."

We've always called it Car Narrows, but that was over 40 years ago, just like Tin Can Mike Lake was called Murphy Lake before someone decided it needed to be re-named! :)

We were there in June, cool to see, you would never know it was there if you were just paddling by. Well someone put a part on the shore when we came by, I put it back in the car. By the way, that is a great place to fish in that narrows, one of the best in the whole lake. Going west, there is a big shelf, depth goes from 15-20 feet to like 45 in about two canoe lengths. Fish the area right before it goes deep, great spot.

Pictures from 2009

quote ellahallely: "The car was driven there in the winter, used for power at a logging camp. The car is located in what is called Cadillac narrows."

Do you know if the truck on Fourtown was used for the same purpose?


July 2012

It was my understanding that the truck on Fourtown belonged to a family that had a cabin on the lake. Fourtown was not part of the bwca until later years. People would drive their vehicles up the cloquet line (railroad) on the tracks. You can still see most of the old railroads from the air.
I know of an old car in Burntside. You can see a car in the waters of North Lake (off gunflint) 2 or 3 feet under the water. I also got word of an old car in the burned out area north of Isabella lake.

I also remember it being called car narrows. I am kind of a swampy!

Completely off topic..

In Maine there are two huge locomotives and an entire set of railway cars...and the tracks and switching mechanisms..
Relics of the short lived Eagle and Umbazooksus RR a logging railroad abandoned in the 1930s. Machinery was too expensive to get out of the woods so it was just left there
Neat to poke around and see. Trees growing in the middle of the tracks

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