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Photo 018A

  

M&LS 2380 pulls on the turntable at Manistique

 

Manistique and Lake Superior 2380 prepares to drive onto the turntable at Manistique, while the tender for sister 2390 sits nearby.  There are several interesting things to note about this scene.  To the left is the conveyer for loading coal into the tender.  The other end of this conveyer is under a coal hopper car on a side track.  The turntable is of the "armstrong" type.  Lacking any motor,

 

Manistique, MI

 

Manistique & Lake Superior

 
 

the locomotive is turned by brute force pushing the pole on the right side of the photograph.  The photo suggests that the roundhouse had at least five tracks, but it looks like only one or two are used.  This is a 1950 photograph.  The Manistique and Lake Superior ran from the car ferry dock on Lake Michigan north through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Shingleton (where it connected with the South Shore line) and Doty (where it connected with the LS&I).  The line was abandoned in 1967.  ©  Dave Fulkerth Collection.
   
   

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