Title: Railroads - Copper Range
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Railroad Companies, Transportation - Railroads, Manpower - Labor - Skilled Labor
Condition: Good
Description: The trio of "dead" Copper Range engines move across the lake in Houghton past St. Joseph Medical Center. Center - the same three 25, 26, 27 are shown on the western side of the Bosch Brewery Co. site just ready to enter the Klatsky Co. yard for scrapping. Below - the men who were engaged in the pushing of the locomotives from the yard of the Copper Range to the Klatsky premises - L to R, Charles Sincock, superintendent; Edward Laurn, bridge and building crew; Joseph LaBelle, engineer; Cyril LaBissionere, conductor; Harold Eilola, brakeman; Karl Ponnikas, brakeman; Robert Barth, yardmaster; Arnold Klatsky, proprietor of the Klatsky Co. locomotive purchasers; Felix Kolehmainen, foreman of bridge and building crew, and Arthur Sampson, Houghton section foreman. [Three attached images of the Copper Range engines and crew.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Bob Skuggen
Date of Photo: April 1 1955
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 19.8 cm x 19.6 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-006-002-001
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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