Comments on: The Roundhouse that Was

By: Calumet-opolis: A Guided Tour (p5)

Calumet-opolis: A Guided Tour (p5) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:04:29 +0000

[...] on down the line we end up at the center of C&H’s railroad – the roundhouse. This stone building still stands, and is currently used as the home for an electronics [...]

By: Dale Beitz

Dale Beitz — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:08:14 +0000

Ben: There are a good number of C&H photos here on CCE, just look around for them. Another resource might be Kevin Musser’s Copper Range website. It’s focused on the Copper Range Railroad, but there are C&H photos there. Sadly, Kevin passed away in 2007 so the site is no longer updated, but it is still online. The History button is a good place to start.
http://www.pasty.com/copperrange/index.html

The MTU online archives is another good source, located here:
http://digarch.lib.mtu.edu/

Another source is the Mining Artifacts website. Go to the Historic Mine Photos by State button, then look for Michigan Copper. There’s a handful of C&H photos if you scroll down the page.
http://miningartifacts.homestead.com/

Finally, I’ll mention the Superior View photo store, which has a section of online photos. Under occupations click on the Copper Mining link for more CC photos, including some C&H.
http://www.viewsofthepast.com/topics/images.htm#

That’s what I’ve got handy in my bookmarks. I’m sure if you start googling you can find lots of other stuff online. I’ve stumbled across various CC photos embedded inside online versions of old mine reports, old newspaper articles, etc. I don’t know what the position of the above listed sites is on the use of their photos, that’s something you’d need to find out.

By: Ben Jeffery

Ben Jeffery — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:05:20 +0000

these are some great pics. i am working on a table top model of the C&H Mining Complex. I am working on collecting older pics. if anyone has anymore pics, let me know.

thanks

By: Gordy Schmitt

Gordy Schmitt — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:53:29 +0000

The Torch Lake is the one.

By: Adam from Detroit

Adam from Detroit — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:00:52 +0000

yes Gordy, isn’t that engine @ Greenfield Village named the “Torch Lake”?
they had two locomotives running the passenger trains when i went there as a kid–the “Edison” and the “Torch Lake”

i went to the Village and the Henry Ford Museum at LEAST twice a year

By: Gordy Schmitt

Gordy Schmitt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:52:52 +0000

C&H first 2 road diesels showed up in Sept 1948, so I would say after they arrived very little steam was used. C&H did have 2 smaller diesel locomotives they used down in Lake Linden and Hubbell around the mills. Once C&H stopped using the steam engines, they were scrapped. Only one was saved, one of the Mason Bogie type #3 which was kept in the enginehouse in Ahmeek. It was brought out for the centenniels, not operating though.
But, it lives, and runs pulling passengers at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, according to the website, its the oldest daily operating steam locomotive, built in 1873. Heres a link to the website.
http://www.wrenscottage.com/gvm/transportation/torchlake.php

By: B Groeneveld

B Groeneveld — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:12:46 +0000

Gordy great pics & info .When was the last year steam was used on the C& H . Also did C & H R.R. ever bring out any steam locos for special events ?

By: Gordy Schmitt

Gordy Schmitt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:59:46 +0000

Now that I think about it, there would have been 4 tracks around the corner, 3 for the enginehouse plus one going over to the turntable for the car repairs