This railroad has the same name today that it had in the early 1900s. That is so rare that the only other non-tourist railroad that I can think of that still has its original name is the Union Pacific.
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| Michigan Railroad History Conference posted Escanaba & Lake Superior #102 and crew pose at the Wells roundhouse. Photo is undated and photographer is unknown. Locomotive #102 is a Baldwin S8 built in 1952. Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared |
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| Greg Bunce commented on the above post What it looks like now. |
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| Terry B. Carlson commented on Daniel's share Still there and still in use. It's a "switched" RH, no TT. Google Earth Imagery Date: 5-24-2023 Location: 45.7765299,-87.065236 |
The ELS started out as a logging road that fed a sawmill in Wells, MI. Between 1900 and 1937, it hauled Milwaukee Road ore trains to an ore dock. But in 1937, Milwaukee Road started sharing C&NW's ore dock. When the ELS picked up trackage from the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy in the late 1970s, it more than tripled its trackage. And it continued to grow as more trackage was shed by Class I railroads. [American-Rails]
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| Edward Gross, Jan 2018 |
"The E&LS has a major business line storing and refurbishing freight cars. They use a former C&NW car shop at Escanaba for car repairs and refurbs." And much of their current trackage is now used to store cars. [MichiganRailroads]
It has accumulated a lot of vintage locomotives. RailroadFan has a list.
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| 1932 Gladstone SE Quad @ 31,680 |
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