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1896–present. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad (reporting mark LSI), is a Class III railroad U.S. railroad offering service from Marquette, Michigan, to nearby locations in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It began operations in 1896.
25–35 mph (40–56 km/h) Other. Website. www.elsrr.com. The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad (reporting mark ELS) is a Class III shortline railroad that operates 347 miles (558 km) of track in Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. [1]
Railroads have been vital in the history of the population and trade of rough and finished goods in the state of Michigan. While some coastal settlements had previously existed, the population, commercial, and industrial growth of the state further bloomed with the establishment of the railroad. The state's proximity to Ontario, Canada, aided ...
Grand Rapids and Chicago Railway. Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway. Grand Rapids, Holland and Lake Michigan Rapid Railway. Grand Rapids and Saginaw Railroad. Highland Park Railway. Holland and Lake Michigan Railway. Houghton County Traction Company. Inter-Urban Railway. Jackson and Ann Arbor Railway.
Water cap. Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad No. 23 is an SC-4 class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive originally built by the ALCO's Pittsburgh Works in 1910 for the Lake Superior and Ishpeming (LS&I) Railroad in Upper Michigan. The locomotive was originally numbered 9, but it was renumbered 23 in 1924.
Track gauge. 3 ft (914 mm) Length. 15 miles. The Quincy & Torch Lake Railroad (Q&TL), an affiliate of the Quincy Mining Company, was a 3-foot-gauge shortline railroad located at Hancock in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, [1] not far from Torch Lake. [2] It was created to replace an existing tramway, and was designed to take copper-bearing rock ...
Area code. 906 [ a ] The Upper Peninsulaof Michigan —also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop —is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.
Ishpeming (/ ˈ ɪ ʃ p ə m ɪ ŋ / ISH-pə-ming) is a city in Marquette County, Michigan, United States. Located in the Upper Peninsula, the population was 6,140 at the 2020 census, [2] less than it was in the 1950s and 1960s when the Iron ore mines employed more workers. A statue of a Native American figure, erected in 1884 in the small town ...