Manistique

Box car body used as switchman’s shanty

Station and office building built 1904, 2 – story, frame, shingle roof, 24’ x 66’, Outhouse, 4’ x 9’ x 8’, Furniture, Wood platform

Freight house, built 1904, 1 – story, frame, shingle roof, 16’ 4” x 45’, platform 24’ 6” x 38’ and 8’ x 14’

50’ 100 ton track scale, built 1914, pit concrete, scale house 5’ x 11’ 6”

Shops and engine houses

Boiler, machine and blacksmith shop built 1906, 1 story, frame, prepared roof, 30’ 6” x 93’ and 10’6” x 61’.  Engine lathe 43” x 16’ (“ second hand, 1895 shop No. 1, Engine lathe 22” x 10” hitcomb, Blaie e1l Machine tool Co., second hand, 1912, shop No. 5.  Machine shop tools 1 lathe, 1 planer, 1 wheel press, 1 bolt out tar, 1 power hack saw, 1 vertical drill, 1 steam engine, 1 steam boiler, 2 air compressors, new and second hand.

6 stall round house built 1908, frame prepared roof, stalls 64’ long, motor car house lean-to 10’ x 12’, outhouse 5’ x 6’ 6” x 8’

54’ steel turntable, concrete circle wall

Car repairers house, frame, shingle roof, 16’ x 20’ with box car body addition

Sand house, frame, shingle roof, 12’ x 20’

Carpenter shop, frame, prepared roof, 12’ x 30’

Boxcar body used as car repair shop.

Tool house, frame, 11’ x 30’

Water station, pump and appurtenances.

Coal dock, timber, coal buckets.

Hiawatha

Section dwelling, 2 story, frame, shingle roof, 20’ 4” x 20’ 4”, outhouse 4’ x 4’ 6” x 6’ 6”, section car and tool house, frame, shingle roof, 10’ x 12’ x 8’.

Steuben

Company boarding houses, built 1894, 1 and 2 story, frame, shingle roof, 30’ 6” x 40’ 9”, 16’ 6” x 14’ x 20’, out houses 4’ x 5’ x 7’, chicken houses 9’4” x 18’ x 7’ & 12’ 8” x 18’ x #’, drilled well with pumps, section car and tool house, frame, shingle roof 10’ x 12’ x 8’

Shingleton

Passenger and freight depot built 1900, 1 story, frame, shingle roof, 22’ 6” x 65’, outhouse 5’ x 6’.  M & L S RR and D S S & A Ry. 50% ownership each.  Section dwelling, 2 story, frame shingle roof, 26' 6” x 32’8”, out house 4’ x 5’ x 7’, driven well and pump.  Section car and tool houses, frame, shingle roof, 10’ x 12’ x 8’.

Doty

Ownership of no items shown for location.

Telephone

33.2 miles of pole line complete, average 32 poles per mile.  Office apparatus complete including interior wiring and associated lines in 12 telephone offices.

Equipment M of W

Hand cars (1 car)

Push cars (1 car)

Snow plows (1 car)

C##iter ballast plow (1 car)

Steam shovel, No. 1, 1 ½ yard, second hand, 1900, wood body and underframe, (1 car).

Derrick, No. 2, mounted, wood body and underframe, (1 car).

Derrick, No. 3, mounted, wood body and underframe, (1 car).

Snow spreader, No. 4, rebuilt 1900, wood body and underframe, (1 car)

Ballast car, No. 5, rebuilt 1912, capacity 40,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (1 car)

Boarding cars, Nos. B1, B3, B4, second hand and rebuilt, capacity 30,000 and 50,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (3 car)

Tool car, No. B2, rebuilt, capacity 40,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (1 car).

Locomotives

No. 3, Baldwin Loco works 1890, second hand, 1898, type 2-6-0, freight service, cylinder 15” x 18”, total lightweight 38 tons.

No. 4, Brooks Loco. Works, 1888, second hand, 1897, type 2-6-0, freight service, cylinders 14” x 22”, total light weight 43 tons

No. 5, Baldwin Loco. Works, 1870, second hand, XXXX, type 4-4-0, freight service, cylinders 16” x 24”, total light weight 48 tons

No. 6, Baldwin Loco. Works, 1870, second hand, 1XXX, type 4-4-0, freight service, cylinders 16” x 24”, total light weight 47 tons

No. 8. Baldwin Loco. Works, 1901, second hand, 1912, type 2-8-0, switch service, cylinders 19” x 24”, total lightweight 74 tons.

No. 9 and 10, Baldwin Loco. Works, 1890, second hand, 1913, type 4-6-0, freight service, cylinders 16” x 24”, total lightweight 61 tons.

Freight cars

Box cars

No. 200, rebuilt, capacity 80,000 lbs., wood body and under frame

Nos. 206 – 216, second hand, capacity 80,000 and 60,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (8 cars).

Flat cars

Nos. 301 – 329, second hand, 1901, capacity 60,000 lbs., wood underframe, (15 cars).

Nos. 331 – 389, Russel Wheel & Foundry Co., 1902, capacity 60,000 lbs., wood underframe, (30 cars).

Nos. 393 – 491, second hand, 1913, capacity 60,000 lbs., wood underframe, (30 cars).

Nos. 493 – 591, second hand, 1913, capacity 60,000 lbs., wood underframe, (50 car).

Log cars

Nos. 1 – 150, Russel Wheel & Foundry Co., 1898 – 1904, capacity 40,000 lbs., wood underframe, (150).

Caboose cars

No. 1, Russell Wheel & Foundry Co., 1897, capacity 40,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (1 car).

No. 2, M. M. & N. Ry*., 1902, rebuilt, capacity 40,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (1 car).

No. 3, rebuilt, 1912, capacity 50,000 lbs., wood body and underframe, (1 car).

* Manistique Marquette and Northern Railway

Passenger cars

Baggage and passenger combine,

No. 1, The Pullman Co., 1893, length 51’8”, wood body and underframe, wood-plated 4 wheel trucks, (1 car)

Passenger cars,

No. 2, second hand, 1900, length 50’ 2”, wood body and underframe, wood 6 wheel trucks, (1 car).

Bridge work

67 pipe and timber culverts

21 timber trestles

2 Metal bridges

Manistique River, 3 spans, single track, built superstructure 1900, length 240 ft., substructure, for timber piers filled with stone, superstructure, 3 20 ft. thru riveted truss spans, and timber stringers.

Indian River, two spans, single track, built 1915, length 125 ft., substructure, concrete, two abutments, one pier and two extra piers at span centers, superstructure two 64 ft. second hand deck plate grinder span.