TitleMr. T. H. Hamilton, has his dock contracts here Date1888-08-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMr. T. H. Hamilton has his dock contracts here proactically completed and will leave the city today ... View Details
TitleRepublic - the carpenters are busy repairing the platform Date1888-08-04 SubjectRailroads DescriptionCarpenters are busy repairing the platform around the South Shore depot. Agent parsons does his utm... View Details
TitleRock River - the men are at work steadily getting in logs Date1888-08-04 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMen are at work steadily getting in logs for the big order of fencing for the railroads View Details
TitlePractically completed Date1888-08-04 SubjectRailroads DescriptionExtension of the DSS&A west to Iron River junction, where the road strikes the NP, is now ballasted ... View Details
TitleNegaunee, August 6, 1888 Date1888-08-08 SubjectRailroads DescriptionReporter took a journey out to the DSS&A Railroad, Palmer extension Saturday. From here to Half-way... View Details
TitleTo some distance east of here, the South Shore line is paralleled Date1888-08-08 SubjectRailroads DescriptionTo some distance east of here, the South Shore line is paralleled with new rails, all joined togethe... View Details
TitleOver it's own track (2 pages) Date1888-08-10 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMr. J. A. Latcha, chief engineer and superintendent of construction of the DSS&A has just received i... View Details
TitleThrough to Superior Date1888-08-11 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMr. J. A. Latcha, chief engineer and superintendent of construction of the DSS&A has just received i... View Details
TitleNegaunee - Roos, Davidson & Co Date1888-08-11 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe contractors who have just finished their share of grading on the Palmer extension of the South S... View Details
TitleJames McMillan when asked Date1888-08-20 SubjectRailroads DescriptionJames McMillian when asked about his connections with upper peninsula land grants said: The H&O has... View Details
TitleService on the extension Date1888-08-20 SubjectRailroads DescriptionBetween the 25th of this month and the 1st of September, a local train will be commenced on the midd... View Details
TitleWar at Palmer Date1888-08-20 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe people of palmer some 7 miles south of the city are very much wrought over the actions of the co... View Details
TitleCarry the news to the Soo (2 pages) Date1888-08-25 SubjectRailroads DescriptionYesterday the private cars of the officals of three great railroads met in Marquette. W. C. Van Hor... View Details
TitleNegaunee - a representative of the firm of contractors Date1888-08-25 SubjectRailroads DescriptionRepresenative of the firm of contractors who were referred to in this department last week as being ... View Details
TitleFirst section Date1888-08-25 SubjectRailroads DescriptionPart of the extension of the DSS&A from Iron River Junction to West Superior is all ready under cont... View Details
TitleConstruction train at Mason, Wi. Date1905-03-02 SubjectRailroads DescriptionConstruction train at Mason, Wisconsin August 1888. View Details
TitleRock River - the pile driver was engaged Date1888-09-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionPile Driver as engaged in putting down new piles to stregthen the birdge at this place on Thursday. View Details
TitleNew York, Aug 20 - a dispatch Date1888-09-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA despatch from Ashland Wisconsin states that work has been stopped on the DSS&A extension to West S... View Details
TitleProposed road Date1888-10-20 SubjectRailroads DescriptionNorthern Michigan railroad which has just been incorporated, as was noticed in the Mining Journal, i... View Details
TitleDuluth & Winnipeg Date1889-01-12 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA big syndicate has been formed by New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, Duluth and Michigan capitali... View Details
TitleNot this year, s'mother year Date1889-01-12 SubjectRailroads DescriptionI have been told, that the South Shore folks will commence on their new branch from main line to Ash... View Details
TitleDavid Sutton, master builder Date1889-01-16 SubjectRailroads DescriptionDavid Sutton, master builder of the South Shore, has resigned. As the appointment of a superintende... View Details
TitleAll bosh Date1889-01-19 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA putative newspaper at St. Ignace, having announced with flaring headlines that the MSTP&SSM line, ... View Details
TitleM&N Extension to Ontonagon Date1889-01-21 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMcIntosh Brothers have taken a contract from the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad Company to build 36 m... View Details
TitleM & N extension to Ontonagon Date1889-01-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionMcIntosh Brothers has taken a contract from the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad Company to build 36 mi... View Details
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