Re: NNG: Greenfield Village Mason-Bogie

craig Wrote:
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> I too would be interested in archives from the
> Mason facility above and beyond what little I’ve
> found.

> I was
> surprised the Torch Lake locomotive shops do not
> have documentation for their locomotive.

Bear in mind that Mason built their last locomotive in the late 1880s and most were scrapped by the 1940s, if not earlier (along with the ending of the company itself). I'm not sure we'll be lucky enough to find much more information than what's out there and accounted for already (although I'd love to be proven wrong) as I'm sure much of it was dumped at some point in time as were the records of many companies from that era. Most of the resources that I'm aware of are already mentioned in this thread.

As it stands, I believe Michigan Tech's archive has the bulk of the Calumet & Hecla records and would likely be your best bet at finding any drawings that the C&H had in their possession for the locomotives. One of our staff members was able to obtain a rather complete set of drawings for a side dump car that the C&H built in house about 1915, so they do definitely have some material from the railroad operations. Some of their collection is digitized and available online, although I believe any major research beyond that would need to be conducted on site by either yourself or by paying a staff member to do so for you. Any historic drawings that still exist were likely drafted by the C&H draftsmen for various overhauls of their Mason fleet and not by Mason.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/2021 07:52PM by santafe158.