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The engine can regularly be seen switching out E&LS customers in that area, and at the car maintenance facility in Escanaba, or at the E&LS engine shop at Wells, moving the stored engines and cars. In early January 2020, the railroad bought the ILSX SD40-2 #1344 and later in the year re-numbered it 502.
The locomotives were originally delivered to the New York Central Railroad, as units 3805 and 3816, later renumbered to 1205 and 1216 in 1966, shortly before being traded in to General Electric. [2] They were then sold to the Monongahela Railway in 1967, where they worked coal drag service until 1972, by which point they were the only operable ...
The BLH RF-16 is a 1,625-horsepower (1,212 kW) cab unit-type diesel locomotive built for freight service by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation between 1950 and 1953. All RF-16s were configured with a B-B wheel arrangement and ran on two AAR Type B two-axle road trucks, with all axles powered.
Escanaba, Frankfort and Southeastern Railroad: AA: 1895 1895 Ann Arbor Railroad: Escanaba, Iron Mountain and Western Railroad: CNW: 1890 1947 Chicago and North Western Railway: Escanaba and Lake Superior Railway: 1898 1901 Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad: Escanaba and Lake Superior Railway: CNW: 1880 1882 Chicago and North Western Railway ...
Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad box car, built in 1901, on display at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. In 1904 the railroad carried over 1.2 million short tons (1.1 Mt) of freight, and over 1.1 million short tons (1.00 Mt) of that was iron ore. It had 489 ore cars, 14 locomotives, and 121 employees. [2]
The railroad of the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad, located in the northern peninsula of Michigan. The main line extends northwesterly from Wells to Channing, a distance of 62.836 miles, and the branch lines extend from Flat Rock to Escanaba and from ...
Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad 207 at Channing, MI on October 5, 1988 (22338370013) ... Diesel Engine Manual DE-111 for 600 series engines, Manual DE-111 ...
The collection includes the William Crooks, which became the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota in 1861, and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Number 227, a 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" locomotive that was among the largest steam engines to operate. Several museum spaces are available for rent as an event venue.