First Steam Engine

Abstract/Description:	The first Locomotive into Houghton was this Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad Company steam engine. Captured in this stereopticon slide and preserved by a member of the Keweenaw Historical Society, the engine photo was dated 1886 with Pat O'Brien as first engineer. Ten years later the railroad commissioner stated that DSSandA railway system was the most extensive railroad property in the Upper Peninsula
Subject(s):	Transportation Railroads Calumet (Mich.)
Date Created:	1880 - 1939

Title:	First Steam Engine.
Name(s):	Houghton County Historical Society, contributor Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor Mineral Range Railroad, contributor
Type of Resource:	still image
Date Created:	1880 - 1939
Physical Form:	photographs
Extent:	1 item
Abstract/Description:	The first Locomotive into Houghton was this Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad Company steam engine. Captured in this stereopticon slide and preserved by a member of the Keweenaw Historical Society, the engine photo was dated 1886 with Pat O'Brien as first engineer. Ten years later the railroad commissioner stated that DSSandA railway system was the most extensive railroad property in the Upper Peninsula
Note(s):	Electronic reproduction of photograph. The railroads of Houghton County, Michigan
Subject(s):	Transportation Railroads Calumet (Mich.)
Restrictions on Access:	In the public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of:	Houghton County Railroads collection. Identifier: SLC-009
In Collections:	Houghton County Railroads collection