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The company was founded in November 2005 by Kevin Ruble, a nationally active railroad consultant, who purchased a CSX line running north from Grand Rapids to Ludington and Manistee. The railroad maintains its trackage to 40 mph (64 km/h) standards, and operates, as of 2008, seven EMD GP38-2 and EMD SD40-2 locomotives.
The Lake Superior & Ishpeming's historic main line operates on a relatively steep grade, called "The Hill", from Marquette to the iron mines. The steepest gradient is 1.63%. [6] Because of the location of the LS&I's Marquette docks, the railroad must cross the Dead River. The trestle is 565 feet (172 m) long and 104 feet (32 m) high.
In 1912 it was moved a short distance across the railroad tracks [4] to the location it now stands. [3] The structure was used by the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway as offices, warehouse space, and a freight depot until 1965. [3] The station has recently been converted into an artist's studio. [2]
The carrier was incorporated by a syndicate under the general laws of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin and acquired by consolidation the property of The Mackinaw & Marquette Railroad Company and the charter rights granted to the Sault Ste. Marie and Marquette Railroad Company, The Duluth, Superior and Michigan Railway Company, and the Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie & Mackinac Railway Company.
The Grand Rapids Subdivision is a railroad line in Western Michigan and Northern Indiana. It runs 136 miles (219 km) from Porter, Indiana to Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was built between 1870–1903 by the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad and its successor the Pere Marquette Railroad. CSX Transportation owns the line today.
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.
Wisconsin Central Company: Pere Marquette Railroad: PM: 1899 1917 Pere Marquette Railway: Pere Marquette Railway: PM PM 1917 1947 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Pere Marquette Railroad of Indiana: PM: 1903 1907 Pere Marquette Railroad: Pinconning Railroad: NYC: 1879 1880 Saginaw Bay and Northwestern Railroad: Pleasant Bay Railway: CN/ NKP: 1898 1899
The White River Railroad was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad incorporated on November 13, 1879, for the purpose of constructing a rail link north from the C&WM's line at White Cloud to the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad's main line (Ludington–Monroe) at Baldwin, and to exploit the ample timber resources of the White River area.