Lac Labelle & Calumet coach
| December 11, 2012 09:52PM |
On Dec. 11, this narrow gauge passenger car was on a flatbed trailer in a truckstop at Ward Road and I-70 in Wheat Ridge, CO. As you can see, it is excellent condition, lacking only the air brake system to be operational. The Lac LaBelle & Calumet Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad which operated in the Keweenaw Peninsula, or the extreme northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The line ran between a stamp mill at Lac La Belle and two copper mines, the Mendota and the Delaware, from 1883 to 1888, when poor economic conditions forced the line's closure. The The Ohio Falls Car & Locomotive Company was founded at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1 June 1864. Production of railroad cars fell off during the 1920s, and the Jeffersonville plant was closed in 1930.Anyon know the details?
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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