Turntable: (Satellite, some of the roundhouse foundations is visible.)
See "CN Closing" and "Escanaba & Lake Superior" for some information concerning the the ore docks.
Ken Draper posted two photos with the comment:
Ken Craig Was the former LS&I Alco still there?
Dennis DeBruler This photo has the rounded cab roof of an Alco on the left side. Is this the LS&I Alco?
Ken Draper posted two photos with the comment:
I was in Escanaba MI yesterday and went by the old site of the C&NW yard. It has been swallowed up by the ship repair company. The concrete coaling tower still stands as does another tower of come kind. Any ideas what it was? I am wondering if it is a sand tower.Ronald McGregor Looks like sand tower my guess.
Ken Craig Was the former LS&I Alco still there?
Dennis DeBruler This photo has the rounded cab roof of an Alco on the left side. Is this the LS&I Alco?
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| Lake States Railway Historical Association posted Julio Cesar Diaz: C&NW FM diesel locomotive 1511 on turntable at Escanaba, MI in 1961. Harry Evans photo. If you enjoy the photos and what Lake States is accomplishing, consider joining Lake States or making a donation, or both, https://www.lsrha.org/?page_id=135. [Note the coaling tower in the background.] Andrew Roth shared C&NW FM diesel locomotive 1511 on turntable at Escanaba, MI in 1961. Harry Evans photo. |
John McQuigg posted three photos with the comment: "Three views at the old C&NW Escanaba MI roundhouse in the 80’s. At that time, Escanaba was one of the go-to locations to find Alco locomotives working out their final days."
John McQuigg shared
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The depot is near the lower-left corner, and the roundhouse is near the lower-right corner.
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| 1958 Gladstone and Escanaba Quadrangles @ 1:62,500 |
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| Bryan Monaco posted The Chicago & North Western coaling tower in Escanaba, Michigan. You can see the top of the sanding tower behind the shipping container. If you look really hard you'll see LS&I #1804, an ALCO RSD-12, to the left of the tower. The C&NW yard is now Basic Marine; located at 3rd Ave N and N 10th St. Colin Wisner: I've been there and I’ve been on the property, there’s about a couple dozen former C&NW boxcars, the gutter Alco, the turntable that belonged to the roundhouse, and the coaling tower. [I added the turntable to these notes because of this comment.] Tim Shanahan shared |
While trying to see what they had on a couple of the stalls of the former roundhouse, I discovered that they have an assortment of cranes.
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| Street View, Oct 2019 |
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| Mark Andersen posted C&NW Alco sandwich in Escanaba on 2-3-79. Dan Poitras photo. Locomotives are C&NW 6727, LS&I 2302, and C&NW 6718. |
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| Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted Lots of passenger train action "here" in Escanaba, Michigan. An awful lot of pulp wood. The date on the photo is 1915. Thanks to Ray Buhrmaster for the donation of this an many other photos to our C&NW Historical Society archives at Union, Illinois. |
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| Tom Edwards commented on the above post A 1921 Sanborn fire insurance map says that all that wood belonged to the "Escanaba Manufacturing Company, Mfg's of Wooden Ware (Tooth Picks, Clothes Pins, Pie Plates, Wooden Dishes, Etc.) I wonder how many toothpicks they turned out each day.  |
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| John Pickard posted |
Here is a picture of the C&NW Depot in Escanaba, Michigan! I hope you all enjoy! So sad it was torn down to build a Police and Fire hall.
Durand Union Station-Michigan Railroad History Museum posted two photos with the comment:
Today’s featured depot is the Chicago & North Western station in Escanaba.The Peninsula railroad was built in 1863, and was the first railroad to come to Escanaba. It ran from Negaunee to Escanaba. One of the lines, which was the former Escanaba, Iron Mountain & Western Railroad, was called the “Ore Line.” Escanaba has been a major unloading point for iron ore as well as coal. Escanaba’s port was important for the Union during the Civil War in shipping these ores as well as lumber.Unfortunately, over time passenger service would decline and in 1969, it would end entirely. The depot no longer exists, but the Delta County Historical Museum’s Railroad Room has a dome which was the original cupola from Escanaba’s main depot.Source:Unknown Author: https://www.michiganrailroads.com/.../85.../696-escanaba-mi
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| Sam Carlson posted 38 years ago today [Jun 27] CNW train ESGBA has departed Escanaba and is heading toward Green Bay. Peter Munro shared |
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