A three unit set of FM's in off an ore job rest near the coal tower. The big FM's toiled for years lugging ore jobs around Upper Michigan until finally replaced by Ex N&W C628's in 1975. Photo by ... (more)

After Harnischfeger Corporation closed its crane plant in Escanaba the CNW moved its engine facility from the run down antiquated steam era roundhouse to this more modern building at the former cr... (more)

Two sets of Chicago and North Western Alco C628s used on taconite ore trains sit at C&NW’s Escanaba, Michigan, engine facility on October 18, 1986.

Dumper Job power is serviced and ready to go at the Escanaba roundhouse. 6711 and 6716 will spend the evening and overnight shoving ore. Before the CNW moved out of the old lakefront roundhouse it... (more)

Riding high on the ore dock lead is the Dumper Job with 6715 and 1506. The Baldwin/EMD 6 axle hybrids were pretty much confined to yard duty by 1978 and 1506 would soon be retired. The Dumper Job ... (more)

Escanaba roundhouse always played host to sets of big Alco's from the mid 70's until the retirement of first the roundhouse and then the Alco's. Here 6712, 6727 and 6716 have been fueled, sanded a... (more)

The 4 axle Alco's the CNW transferred from Huron to Escanaba in 1980-1981 added a bit more Alco variety to Upper Michigan. I always liked the C425's and thought they were good looking units. I'm s... (more)

Engineer Vern King has a grimy set of C628's in full dynamic as they ease down to the ore yard at Escanaba on a warm Spring day in 1977. C628's 6710, 6730, 6715 lead 108 loads and after a long day... (more)

Escanaba & Lake Superior 400 returns home on a weed covered ROW.

C628 6701 in the company of a pair of Baldwin/EMD re-builds at Escanaba Roundhouse in the spring of 1977.

The EMD 1565,1554 and WC 6598 are arriving at Escanaba with an ore load from Minnesota early in the morning. The EMD lease SD35's spent a couple winters in this service and considering there age p... (more)

CNW's lone RS-11 has been in the roundhouse for a little work and now is getting a test run with a couple machinists and a hostler on board near the roundhouse at Escanaba. When the smaller 4 axle... (more)

The lighting is terrible but this is the last time I ever seen the Ex D&H Sharks in the light of day. They were being moved from the E&LS roundhouse at Wells to the building the E&LS was leasing/b... (more)

CNW 6706 rests at the end of a long string of stored C628's in the new ore yard at Escanaba. After being stored in December of 1986 the Alcos spent quite awhile in the number six ore yard with der... (more)

About 7 miles west of Escanaba on the line to Powers the CNW crosses the Ford River on this bridge. Alcos 6703,6727,and 6704 are hustling the Antoine turn west toward the Milwaukee connection at I... (more)