Classic Trains – September 2019

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Having enjoyed Lake Michigan’s longest rail carferry

ride and then prowled around Escanaba and Marquette

in the middle of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula [“Sailing to

the U.P.,” Summer 2019], we three explorers — Jerry

Pinkepank, Roger Meade, and I — were in Houghton,

gateway to the state’s northernmost reach, the Keweenaw

Peninsula, for overnight on Tuesday, September 1.

Soo Line’s Houghton–Lake Linden, Mich., freight crosses the bridge and

turns northeast behind AS616s 394 and 390 still in Duluth, South Shore &

Atlantic colors. DSS&A merged into Soo on the first day of 1961.

On Wednesday, September 2, Milwaukee Road FP7s 101A and 103A lift the

northbound Copper Country Limited through Hancock, Mich., from the dis-

tant bridge. Milwaukee equipment ran through on the train from Chicago.

A Century 424, the road’s lone RS27, and
two RS3s stand at Green Bay & Western’s
Norwood Yard sanding tower on Septem-
ber 4. All-Alco GB&W then had 17 units,
all in red-and-gray. Nos. 311 and 310
would take train 1 west this day.