TitleGetting ready for work Date1886-11-13 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the planned construction of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company... View Details
TitleReporting for duty Date1886-11-13 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the planned construction of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company... View Details
TitleGenesis of an exodus Date1886-11-20 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the employment related to construction of the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic R... View Details
TitleFirst party gone Date1886-11-20 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the surveying crew preparing to begin work on building the railroad extension in ... View Details
TitleRailroad race Date1886-11-25 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the rivalry beteen the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic (DSS&A) and the Minnea... View Details
TitleInteresting interview Date1886-11-27 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle including an interview with James McMillan with the Detroit Evening Journal regarding the ex... View Details
TitleAnother party gone Date1886-12-04 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionArticle describing the surveying crew preparing to begin work on building the Duluth, South Shore, a... View Details
TitleProgress of the Survey Date1887-01-08 SubjectRailroads DescriptionCorps for the survey of the line for the DSS&A is now fully organized and work is progressing all al... View Details
TitleIsadore Dox resident engineer Date1887-01-15 SubjectRailroads DescriptionIsadore Dox, resident engineer of the Summit division of the DSS&A and George A. Marab, resident eng... View Details
TitleIshpeming Date1887-01-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionIshpeming - Just now the northern peninsula is reaping the fruit of the boom in railroad constructio... View Details
TitleNegaunee a surveyor's party Date1887-01-29 SubjectRailroad Engineering DescriptionNegaunee A surveyor's party went to Nestoria Tuesday, and will commence on the line of the DSS&A, wo... View Details
TitleSpecial consisting of engine no 2 Date1887-02-05 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA special consisting of engine number 2 and a coach passed over a portion of the MH&O Wednesday. Th... View Details
TitleMinneapolis Journal Date1887-02-11 SubjectRailroads DescriptionGeneral W. D. Washburn returned from the east this morning where he has been for some time in the in... View Details
TitleAfter Gogebic Ore Date1887-02-12 SubjectRailroads DescriptionL'anse Sentiel understands from information funished it that as soon as the survey of the main line ... View Details
TitleTranscontinental line Date1887-02-17 SubjectRailroads DescriptionNew York dispatches state that R.J. Harvey, the principle member of the syndicate which is building ... View Details
TitleUpper Peninsula Railroads Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionS.A. Harrison senior member of the firm of Harrison & Green, contractors, who have taken the contrac... View Details
TitleGogebic Division Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionHarrison & Green, of Milwaukee, has taken the contract for the construction of the Gogebic division ... View Details
TitleTo be operated as One Line Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA New York dispatcher to the Boston Sunday Harold gives the following particulars concerning the pla... View Details
TitleRailroad Work Date1887-09-10 SubjectIshpeming (Mich.) DescriptionPresident C. F. Dutton and other officals of the M&N arrived in the country Friday of last week and ... View Details
TitleTo-Morrow! Our Toot will arrive"" Date1887-09-15 SubjectRailroads DescriptionAt last there is the possibility of the construction train reaching here at a definite time (unless ... View Details
TitleLast Spike Driven Date1887-09-17 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe Iron Horse Reaches the Sault and the Town Goes Wild, the first train on the DSS&A reached Sault ... View Details
TitlePreparing for the Railroad Date1887-09-17 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMills and Dishno of Ishpeming, are mvoing a number of houses, including the post office, a store and... View Details
TitleChocolay booms : preparing to annex the Sault, Gladstone, the Universe and Part of Texas (2 pages) Date1887-09-17 SubjectRailroads DescriptionIn order to keep up with the time the Mining Journal finds that it must have a little town of its ow... View Details
TitleSpeaking of the DSS&A Date1887-03-05 SubjectRailroad engineering DescriptionThe Railway Register observes that when its construction was determined on it was figured that the d... View Details
TitleDuluth to Boston (2 pages) Date1887-03-19 SubjectRailroads Description{Boston Harold devotes two columns to the meeting of railroad men recently held in boston to take ac... View Details
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