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South Shore Steam by Thomas E Burg Locomotives of the Duluth South Shore & Atlan
South Shore Steam by Thomas E Burg Locomotives of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway and Mineral Range Railroad Photos from the Roy Campbell Collection
Soft Cover
Copyright 2011
105 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
Nineteenth Century Locomotives 6
Switch Engines14
4-4-0 Americans21
2-6-0 Moguls28
4-6-0 and 4-6-2 Passenger Locomotives38
2-8-0 Consolidations 54
2-8-2 Mikados84
Miscellaneous DSS&A87
Mineral Range93
Finale103
Bibliography104
The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic (DSS&A) Railway, aka the "South Shore", was the upper peninsula (UP) of Michigan's own railroad, formed by an amalgamation of competing and connecting lines in 1886. Originally established to haul iron ore from mines of the Marquette Iron Range to Lake
Superior docks, its main line extended from a ferry connection to Michigan's lower peninsula at St. Ignace to Houghton in the Keweenaw copper country, whose business primarily gravitated to the road's Marquette headquarters. At Nestoria the western division branched off and crossed the UP and northern Wisconsin to Duluth, somehow missing the only sizeable population centers of Ironwood, Michigan, and Ashland, Wisconsin. The road's entire length traversed the Lake Superior snow belt, where snowfalls are measured in feet rather than inches, in rugged and inhospitable country that is still some of the most remote east of the Mississippi. Always subject to the wild economic swings of the mining industry, the South Shore succumbed to bankruptcy during the Great Depression, which lasted until after World War II.
Finally reaching a degree of prosperity in the 1950's, the South Shore merged in 1960 with the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie and Wisconsin Central, its identity disappearing into the modern Soo Line Railroad.
Steam freight locomotives of the South Shore were primarily Moguls from the late 19th century, replaced in 1913 with a fleet of powerful 2-8-0 Consolidations. Passenger service was primarily local, but included flagship trains Nos. 1 and 2, Lake Superior Limited, between St. Ignace and Houghton. Primary power was American Standard 4-4-0's, until a small fleet of Pacifics replaced them in 1913. These 1913 upgrades lasted until dieselization in the early 1950's.
Roy Campbell took great interest in the roads of his native Copper Country. The best of his extensive collection of South Shore locomotive photos are presented here for the viewer to examine and enjoy. Locomotives of South Shore subsidiary Mineral Range (MR) Railroad are included, since ownership changed in both directions between DSS&A and MR.
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