Michigamme, MI: Lost/(C&NW and DSS&A) Depots, Museum and Henry Ford Camp

Museum: (Satellite)

DSS&A = Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic

Greg bunce posted two images with the comment: "The Chicago and North Western depot is at the center and the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic depot is at the right in this photo  at Michigamme, Michigan.  Michigamme was at the end of the C&NW branch from Ishpeming.  Photo from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography in the William L. Clement Library at the University of Michigan."

Paul Hillmer: Boom town

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The photo shows the C&NW depot is closer to town than the DSS&A depot. So the C&NW tracks would have been south of the DSS&A tracks. But the 2005 SPV Map shows the C&NW was north of the DSS&A tracks. The C&NW was gone so much before 1956 that this map doesn't even mark an old railroad grade. It does look like CN uses the C&NW route instead of the DSS&A route through town.

1956 Michigamme Quad @ 24,000

The building on the left looks like the old fire house. The building beyond it is labeled as the museum.

Street View, Jun 2025

Dawn K. Aug 2023

This is why Henry Ford was familiar with the Upper Peninsula.

Dawn K., Aug 2023