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Railroads |
Transportation, Railroads, Railroads, Cars, Woody Plants, Trees |
Copper Range train No. 103 the "Copper Range Limited" crosses over one of the three firesteel trestles enroute to Houghton and Calumet. The train consists of 6 cars including a mail and express car, baggage car, 2 coaches and 2 pullmans. [Photo of the train crossing the steel trestle.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads - Accidents |
Transportation, Railroads, Accidents, Seasons, Winter |
Train wreck at L'Anse, MI. [Photo of the wreck.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads |
Transportation, Railroads, Railroads, Cars, Locomotion, Boats and Boating, Workboats, Tugboats |
The R. R. dock, Pequaming, MI [Box cars of the North Western Line, Chicago and North Western and A.S. & N. W. railroads are shown on the dock. The tug boat Jay C. Morse is also pictured.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads - Copper Range |
Transportation, Railroads, Metal Trade, Seasons, Winter |
Despite the great depth of the snow, industry must go on if an area is to possess any type of economics whatsoever. Here, the Copper Range Railroad of Houghton, MI is hauling copper sand to the mill at Freda for recovery of the metal from the sand. Snow here is 22 inches deep. [The train hauls several cars of sand along a snowy track.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads |
Transportation, Automotive, Metal Trade, Buildings |
The former railway trestle of the Quincy smelter converted into a truck ramp. Truck is shown backing up with 18,000 pounds of copper concentrate which will be dumped into the mineral shed for storage previous to smelting. [A truck which may be from the 1950's is shown sitting on the wooden trestle.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads |
Transportation, Railroads, Water, Rivers, Woody Plants, Trees |
[Photo of a railroad trestle above a river.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads - Soo Line |
Transportation, Railroads, Persons, Accidents |
[Photo of a Soo Line Railroad derailment.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads - Copper Range |
Transportation, Railroads, Persons, |
[Image of engine #29 of the Copper Range Railroad.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads |
Transportation, Railroads, Woody Plants, Trees, |
[Image of railroad tracks.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |
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Railroads - Soo Line |
Transportation, Railroads, Railroads, Cars, Seasons, Winter |
[The Soo Line with a snow plow attached, travels on the tracks near the Houghton Bridge. The 7 UP bottling company and the Downtowner Motel can be seen.] Scanned: January 30, 2007 |