Thought I'd chip in about the Quincy and Torch Lake. This is the railroad that got me interested in narrow gauge. I grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula about 60 miles from the Q&TL, and went to college near there in the early 60's (ancient history to many of you!). At that time it was truly "dead but not buried", the title of a short Trains magazine article on it in the late 50's. Although it had quit just before WWII, there were four narrow gauge engines (two 2-6-0s and two 2-8-0s, one of which was outside frame) still in the sandstone enginehouse, a new and never installed boiler on a flatcar outside the enginehouse, a russell-type plow without wings, and lots of their distinctive rock cars scattered about the yards and minesites. All of the track was still in place from the Quincy area to Mason and Torch Lake. Since then most of that has been removed; two of the engines are on display up the hill near the preserved Quincy Hoist and #2 Rockhouse, one is on the Huckleberry RR, and I forget where the other one is. Only a little of the track remains, and that is again near the preserved Quincy Hoist (there are STILL dump cars on the mine powerhouse trestle). And I think the enginehouse walls are still there. But otherwise only the ROW is left. Incidentally, the Q&TL used a lot of stub switches because of the heavy snows in the Copper Country (this last winter I hear they had about 300 inches), and for that reason they did not have a turntable at the enginehouse, using a wye instead to turn engines and cars. So while it is no longer intact like the EBT or the Nevada Northern, it is still worth a stop if you are in the Upper Peninsula.
