Name: Wrecked Beaver Island cars are compacted and shipped for scrap, 2008
Start: 2008-06
End: 2008-06
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2008-06
Kind: Transportation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationenvironmentcommercecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 2008 Beacon described the periodic collection and shipment of old Beaver Island cars for mainland scrap. The year’s load included vehicles that had still run, but whose owners could no longer afford their fuel.

Evidence limits

This is a brief community feature; it does not identify the cars, carrier, scrap facility, or transaction value.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "The Last Ride".
Describes old Island cars being collected, compacted, and shipped to the mainland for scrap, noting that several had still been running but became unaffordable as fuel costs rose. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, June 2008, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held fifty-two-page issue scan confirms the scrap-shipment item.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-06_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Wrecked Beaver Island cars are compacted and shipped for scrap, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-car-scrap-shipment-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 2008, "The Last Ride". (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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