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The '''Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad''' {{reporting mark|ELS}} is a Class III [[shortline railroad]] that operates {{convert|347|mi|km}} of track in Northeastern [[Wisconsin]] and the [[Upper Peninsula of Michigan]].<ref name="g35">{{cite book |last = Glischinski |first = Steve |date = 2007 |title = Regional Railroads of the Midwest |location = St. Paul, Minnesota |publisher = MBI Publishing |isbn = 978-0-7603-2351-9 |page = 35 }}</ref> Its main line runs {{convert|208|mi|km}} from [[Rockland, Michigan]], to [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]], and it also owns various branch lines and out-of-service track.<ref name="g35" /> In 1897, the Escanaba River Company built a {{convert|7|mi|adj=on|spell=in}} railroad from [[Wells Township, Delta County, Michigan|Wells, Michigan]], to tap a large hardwood timber stand at LaFave’s Hill.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Dunathan |first1 = Clint |title = The Century Book |date = March 1, 1963 |publisher = The Escanaba Centennial Corporation |page = 30 |url = https://www.escanaba.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/city_clerk/page/2311/the_century_book.pdf |access-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711053715/https://www.escanaba.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/city_clerk/page/2311/the_century_book.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> In 1898, the company name was changed to the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railway (E&LS).

==History==
===Founding to 1978===
Isaac Stephenson, Jefferson Sinclair, Daniel Wells Jr., Harrison Ludington, and Nelson Ludington were the founders of the N. Ludington Company. It was again renamed to the I. Stephenson company when Isaac Stephenson became majority owner in the same year. The N. Ludington Company became part of this company, and along with being rebranded as the ''Escanaba River Company'', became a subsidiary of this new company<ref>{{Cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad: Map, Roster, History |url = https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |access-date = June 2, 2022 |website = American-Rails.com |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722003931/https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |url-status = live }}</ref> in 1888. The Escanaba River Co. constructed {{convert|7|mi}} to connect the company to hardwood reserves west of Wells and [[Escanaba]]. Work began in 1898 to extend the track {{convert|31|mi|km}} from Wells northwest to [[Watson, Michigan|Watson]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Watson |url = https://archives.nmu.edu/beaumier/ghosttowns/Watson.html |website = Remnanants:Ghost towns of the UP |publisher = Northern Michigan University Beaumier UP Heritage Center |access-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711050510/https://archives.nmu.edu/beaumier/ghosttowns/Watson.html |url-status = live }}</ref> and was completed in 1899.<ref name= Duchaine />
[[File:Photograph of Hardwood Logs at Mill in Grayling, Michigan - NARA - 2129585.jpg|thumb|An example of the Hardwood logging on the early components of the E&LS]]

A branch line referred to [[Ford River, Michigan|Ford River]] was constructed in 1899 from Watson for a distance of {{convert|8.7|mi|km}}. This branch was abandoned in 1910. In 1902, the E&LS built {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} of track southeast out of Wells into the center of Escanaba.

From 1900 to 1903, the railroad extended the mainline track {{convert|31.8|mi|km}} to [[Channing, Michigan|Channing]].<ref>{{cite book |first = William John |last = Cummings |year = 1993 |title = All Aboard! Along the Tracks in Dickinson County, Michigan |url = https://www.uproc.lib.mi.us/dclpdf/LH%20File%202/ALL%20ABOARD%20-%20ALONG%20THE%20TRACKS%20IN%20DICKINSON%20COUNTY,%20MICHIGAN%20-%201990.pdf |location = Iron Mountain, Michigan |publisher = Ralph W. Secord Press/Mid-Peninsula Library Cooperative |access-date = July 9, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad |url = https://www.labellemodels.com/manuals/Escanaba%20and%20Lake%20Superior.pdf |website = LaBelle Woodworking |access-date = July 4, 2021 |archive-date = July 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183209/https://www.labellemodels.com/manuals/Escanaba%20and%20Lake%20Superior.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> This established a connection with the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad]] (component of the Milwaukee Road) and began their haulage rights agreement to their ore dock in Escanaba. At this time, the CMStP&P operated just north of {{convert|100|mi}} in Michigan. As part of the agreement that allowed the CMStP&P access to its line, the E&LS was reincorporated as the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad for its agreement, which allowed it to reach [[Ontonagon, Michigan|Ontonagon]] on [[Lake Superior]]; it has used this name ever since. This agreement ran from February 12, 1900, to March 15, 1937.

At this point in the railroad's history, it had connections to both major Class 1 railroads that existed at the time in the UP: The [[Chicago and North Western]] and the Milwaukee Road, and was able to diversify its traffic base. This diversification included the Milwaukee Road ore trains mentioned above, bound for the now gone Milwaukee ore docks in Escanaba. The railroad also chartered a mixed passenger train that ran along the existing route up until the late 1950s. This service included run-through mail and express from the Milwaukee Road, and passengers bound north from the Chicago & North Western.

Starting in 1901 and continuing into 1902, a branch line was constructed from [[Northland, Michigan|Northland]] for {{convert|10.9|mi|km}} to the [[Escanaba River]]. Between 1902 and 1903, the Northland line was extended from the Escanaba River to [[Kates, Michigan|Kates]], a distance of {{convert|3.28|mi|km}}. The northernmost portion of this branch that extended {{convert|6.1|mi|km}} from [[Gleason, Michigan|Gleason]] was abandoned June 7, 1922. This branch was abandoned in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Johnson |first1 = F. H. |title = First Construction in Michigan Peninsula by Other Railroad Companies |date = August 1939 |publisher = Milwaukee Road |page = 10 |edition = 1939 |url = http://streamlinermemories.info/Milw/Milw47-39.pdf |access-date = July 3, 2021 |archive-date = July 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183221/http://streamlinermemories.info/Milw/Milw47-39.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="g36">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 36}}.</ref>

Other branch lines were built by the E&LS to get out the remote timber stands: [[Ralph, Michigan|Ralph]], [[Turner, Michigan|Turner]] (1911–1912), [[Mashek, Michigan|Mashek]], and [[Hendricks, Michigan|Hendricks]] (1915). These branches totaled more than {{convert|100|mi|km}} of combined branch trackage and sidings. The railroad peaked at {{convert|80.9|mi|km}} of mainline and {{convert|70.8|mi|km}} of yard and sidings on June 30, 1918.<ref>{{cite web |last1 =  |first1 =  |title = History of the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad |url = http://www.elsrr.com/about-a.htm |publisher = elsrr.com |access-date = July 4, 2021 |archive-date = August 14, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200814041129/http://www.elsrr.com/about-a.htm |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1935, the Milwaukee Road moved its ore trains off the E&LS and entered into an agreement with the Chicago & North Western (C&NW) to jointly operate ore trains into Escanaba. Though the E&LS petitioned the [[Interstate Commerce Commission]] (ICC) and later the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] to be allowed to join the joint operations, it was blocked from doing so in 1938 by the Supreme Court.

In the 1940s, two major sources of traffic were developed near Escanaba: The [[Harnischfeger Corporation]], which built large cranes for mining operations, and the Escanaba Paper Company.<ref name="g38">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 38}}.</ref> The railroad's transportation of logs ended in 1943 with the closure of the Stephenson mill in Wells.<ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad: Map, Roster, History |url = https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |website = American-Rails.com |access-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722003931/https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |url-status = live }}</ref> In the early 1960s, the E&LS was purchased by the Hanna Mining Company.<ref name="g38"/> 

In 1969, the E&LS stopped serving the Escanaba Paper Company during a strike (July 1, 1969) at the mill;<ref>{{cite news |author1 = Staff Writer |title = Strike Halts Paper Mill Project |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/523207/the-escanaba-daily-press/ |access-date = September 11, 2021 |work = Escanaba Daily Press |date = July 25, 1969 |page = 1 |language = en-US |quote = A state-wide strike of Boiler Makers Local 169 of Detroit today shutdown construction on the multi-million dollar expansion project at the Escanaba Paper Co. |archive-date = September 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210911223721/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/523207/the-escanaba-daily-press/ |url-status = live }}</ref> in response, the mill's owners built a new connection to the C&NW and [[Soo Line Railroad|Soo Line]] and cut car movements on the E&LS more than five-fold in two years, from 2,200 carloads in 1968 to 449 in 1970.<ref name="g38"/> The E&LS continued skeleton service during the 1970s.<ref name="g38"/> In 1978, Hanna requested permission from the ICC to abandon the railroad.<ref name="g38"/>
[[File:Escanaba-and-lake-superior-map.jpg|thumb|332x332px|A map of the original Wells–Channing line of the E&LSRR<ref>{{Cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad: Map, Roster, History |url = https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |access-date = June 3, 2022 |website = American-Rails.com |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722003931/https://www.american-rails.com/escanaba.html |url-status = live }}</ref>]]

===1978 to 2009===
On October 6, 1978, [[M. A. Hanna Company|Hanna Mining Company]] sold the E&LS Railroad to John C. Larkin and his father Wade Larkin, businessmen from [[Minneapolis]] who had organized a [[National Railway Historical Society]] passenger excursion on the railroad earlier in the decade.<ref name="g40">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 40}}.</ref> He planned to return the railroad to profitability by reducing labor costs and entering the business of leasing boxcars to other railroads.<ref name="g40"/> Shortly thereafter, the boxcar leasing market collapsed.<ref name="g40"/> Additionally, with the Milwaukee Road going bankrupt in 1977, it planned to abandon its trackage in Michigan, consisting largely of a route between [[Ontonagon, Michigan|Ontonagon]] and [[Green Bay, Wisconsin]].<ref name="g41">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 41}}.</ref> This plan would break the E&LS's connections at Channing, as well as end rail service to the shippers on the Milwaukee Road lines.<ref name="g41"/> One of these shippers, Champion Paper, which operated a mill in Ontonagon, approached the E&LS with a proposal for the railroad to buy the Milwaukee Road track to Ontonagon.<ref name="g41"/> 
[[File:Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Depot at Channing, MI on October 5, 1988 (22771536920).jpg|thumb|E&LS Baldwin at Channing]]

===Purchasing ex-Milwaukee Road, C&NW, and Soo Line trackage===
The E&LS was able to reach an agreement with Milwaukee Road's bankruptcy court to take control of the Ontonagon route, as well as additional trackage south. They were backed by many of the line's shippers and the states of Michigan and Wisconsin, but opposed by the C&NW, which wanted to retain iron ore transport from the Groveland Mine in [[Randville, Michigan]], and Hanna Mining, the former owner of the E&LS and owner of the Groveland Mine.<ref name="g41"/> The C&NW and Milwaukee Road had previously shared service to the Groveland Mine under a decades-long agreement between the two, called the Menominee Range Iron Ore Pool.<ref name="Sunday Times">{{cite news |title = E&LS faces ore hurdle |last = Huntley |first = Craig |newspaper = Upper Peninsula Sunday Times |date = May 11, 1980 |volume = 3 |number = 11 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last = Conant |first = Michael |title = Railroad Mergers and Abandonments |publisher = University of California Press |pages = 95–96 }}</ref> By 1979, the mine impacted 31,000 of the 50,000 cars moved over the Milwaukee Road's tracks in the area, a level of traffic so high that Larkin publicly stated that the E&LS would not make a profit without it.<ref name="Sunday Times"/> The ICC, and a US court, ruled in E&LS' favor.<ref>{{Cite court|litigants = Hanna Min. Co. v. Escanaba L. S. R. Co. |vol = 498 |reporter = F. Supp. |opinion = 1267  |url=https://casetext.com/case/hanna-min-co-v-escanaba-l-s-r-co|access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title = Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, May 1981–October 1982 |series = Interstate Commerce Commission Reports |date = 1981 |volume = 365 |pages = 144–173 }}</ref>

On March 10, 1980, the E&LS formally bought the ex-Milwaukee Road between Ontonagon through Channing south to [[Iron Mountain, Michigan|Iron Mountain]].<ref name="g42">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 42}}.</ref> It also obtained a lease-to-own agreement of the tracks south from Iron Mountain to Green Bay; this section was purchased in 1982.<ref name="g42"/> Upon purchase, the E&LS immediately began rebuilding its new trackage, which had been neglected by the Milwaukee Road in the years leading up to its bankruptcy.<ref name="g42"/> Major funding came from the state of Michigan, which paid $1.6 million (equivalent to ${{format price|{{inflation|US-GDP|1600000|1980}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}) to install new ties on the track to Ontonagon.<ref name="g42"/>

In November 1981, the E&LS bought additional trackage, this time a branch line from Channing north to [[Republic, Michigan|Republic]].<ref name="g42"/> In 1985, it bought a branch from [[Crivitz, Wisconsin]], on the Green Bay line, east to [[Marinette, Wisconsin]], and [[Menominee, Michigan]].<ref name="g42"/> During 1987 and 1988, the line to Ontonagon had its lightweight rails replaced with new, heavier rails.<ref name="g42"/> 

In 1986, the E&LS connection track to the C&NW RR was built from a switch just south of Lineville Road in [[Howard, Wisconsin]], to the C&NW Railroad's Howard Industrial Park siding line. This ultimately allowed the E&LS to discontinue operations south of Bond Road in Green Bay in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Watson |first1 = Rip |title = Wisconsin Central Closes Deal, Takes Over Fox Valley & Western |url = https://www.joc.com/wisconsin-central-closes-deal-takes-over-fox-valley-western_19930830.html |website = The Journal of Commerce Online |access-date = November 26, 2021 |language = en-US |date = August 30, 1993 |quote = A favorable Interstate Commerce Commission ruling and completion of arbitration covering employment terms cleared the way for Fox Valley to operate using the assets of Fox River Valley Railroad and Green Bay and Western Railroad, which were acquired for $62.2 million from Itel Corp. |archive-date = November 26, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211126034002/https://www.joc.com/wisconsin-central-closes-deal-takes-over-fox-valley-western_19930830.html |url-status = live }}</ref> This connection was the result of a construction agreement Between the E&LS and the C&NW that was executed on November 27, 1985, which provided joint access to the Howard Industrial Park.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = Fox River Valley Railroad Corp., Trackage Rights Exemption - Finance Docket No. 32247 |magazine = Federal Register |date = February 26, 1993 |volume = 58 |issue = 37 |page = 11625 }}</ref> Two of the contracts executed then allowed tenants of Howard Industrial Park a choice of competing railroads for shipping service. The E&LS mainline was stubbed off in September 2007, removing the track from Bond Street to the Oakland Avenue Yard in Green Bay, Wi. {{citation-needed|date=September 2022}}

On June 24, 1991, E&LS bought a {{convert|23|mi|km|adj=on}} ex-[[Soo Line Railroad| Soo Line]] (ex-[[Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway|Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic]]) branch line from [[Sidnaw, Michigan|Sidnaw]], on the Ontonagon line, east to [[Nestoria, Michigan|Nestoria]].<ref name="g42"/> 

The following year (1992), the E&LS mainline from Channing to Wells was taken out of service, with access to Escanaba retained via a new trackage rights agreement with the [[Wisconsin Central Ltd.|Wisconsin Central Railroad]] (now [[Canadian National Railway|Canadian National Railroad]]), under which the E&LS was granted access their main line from [[Pembine, Wisconsin]], to North Escanaba.<ref name="g42"/>

On April 20, 1995, E&LS bought a short branch line between [[Stiles Junction, Wisconsin]], just north of Green Bay, to [[Oconto Falls, Wisconsin|Oconto Falls]] from the C&NW.<ref name="g43">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 43}}.</ref> In 2005, the [[Wisconsin Department of Transportation]] provided a $2.01 million (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|2010000|2005}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP}}) grant to rebuild E&LS trackage from Crivitz north to the Michigan state line.<ref name="g42"/> This was the last section of mainline track that had not seen a complete rebuild since it was bought in 1980.<ref name="g41"/> 

These recent branch line acquisitions are used by the E&LS to store rolling stock for third parties.<ref name="g41"/>

===Post-2009 and track closures===
After the closure of the Smurfit-Stone Paper Mill in Ontonagon in 2009, the Escanaba and Lake Superior abandoned {{convert|15|mi|km}} of track between Ontonagon and milepost 395 one mile east of [[Rockland, Michigan|Rockland]] in 2011, <ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Company - Abandonment Petition for Exemption - Line in Ontonagon and Houghton Counties, MI, STB Docket No. AB-415 (Sub-No. 2X) |url = https://www.stb.gov/FILINGS/all_2010s.nsf/c72552abc289f85285257515007219bd/85257ca7006a8d2b852577000072ab8d/$FILE/226789.PDF |publisher = Surface Transportation Board |access-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722015035/https://www.stb.gov/FILINGS/all_2010s.nsf/c72552abc289f85285257515007219bd/85257ca7006a8d2b852577000072ab8d/$FILE/226789.PDF |archive-date = July 22, 2021 }}</ref> severing the railroad's closest trackage to Lake Superior. The remaining track between Rockland and Mass City is used for third-party long term car storage. The sidings between Escanaba & Channing are used for long term car storage. The E&LS and the [[Michigan Department of Natural Resources]] consummated a rail banking/interim trail use agreement on or about October 28, 2014, for the abandoned portion of the E&LS rail line between milepost 395 at Rockland and Ontonagon.<ref>{{cite web |title = Trail Use Agreement Reached |url = https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/MPD/17248/C1F57D26C0ED8AF985257D7F00516F71/236912.pdf |website = Filings Results |publisher = Surface Transportation Board |access-date = July 21, 2021 |archive-date = July 21, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210721214415/https://dcms-external.s3.amazonaws.com/MPD/17248/C1F57D26C0ED8AF985257D7F00516F71/236912.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> The abandoned segment is now the Ontonagon to Rockland Trail.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ontonagon to Rockland Trail |url=https://www.traillink.com/trail/ontonagon-to-rockland-trail/ |website= TrailLink |publisher = Rails to Trails Conservancy |access-date=September 14, 2021 |language=en-US |quote=Trail end points: State Road 64 and River Road (Ontonagon) and South of Victoria Dam Road (Rockland) |archive-date=September 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914014920/https://www.traillink.com/trail/ontonagon-to-rockland-trail/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The northernmost customer ships logs from an open air transload in the yard near the junction of East Branch Road and Depot Road in [[Mass City, Michigan|Mass City]].<ref>{{cite web |author = Thornapple River Rail Series |title = TRRS 516: Escanaba & Lake Superior RR - Mass City to Sidnaw |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CbuvezzLu4 |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/-CbuvezzLu4 |archive-date = December 21, 2021 |url-status = live |via = YouTube |access-date = August 25, 2020 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Rolling stock==
[[File:E&LS 402 & 501.jpg|thumb|ELS 402 and 501 pull a long cut of cars into CN's Green Bay yard on September 12, 2021]]
The E&LS has been running a private passenger excursion yearly for invited guests and online customers since exiting passenger service on December 12, 1956.<ref name="g38"/> Themes of trips run have been Shippers Special Train, American Honors Society, NRHS and Great Lakes Western<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Young |first1 = David |title = Vintage-Train Tour Company New Calling for Railroad Buffs |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-05-30-9305300416-story.html |access-date = April 14, 2022 |work = Chicago Tribune |date = May 30, 1993 |language = en-US |archive-date = April 14, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220414051710/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-05-30-9305300416-story.html |url-status = live }}</ref> passenger special. E&LS handed off the ''North Woods Explorer''<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Forrest |first1 = Dick |title = Explorers IV Rail Trip - 1990 - North Woods Explorer |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3DJg5X_rQ |via = YouTube |access-date = December 25, 2022 |language = en-US |format = video |date = June-July 1990 |quote = Come along on the 1990's High Iron "North Woods Explorer" trip that traversed the WC, NBNR, LSI, ACR, and ELS railroads with six private passenger cars.  How they talked the LS&I into taking the occupied train on top of their active ore dock at Presque Isle (Marquette) I'll never know - but they did.  Also memorable was the WC with the train pacing an LS&I ore train.  Some of the track traversed is no longer in service today. |archive-date = December 25, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221225053656/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx3DJg5X_rQ |url-status = live }}</ref> train to the Soo Line at [[Pembine, Wisconsin|Pembine]], who then took it to [[Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan|Sault Ste. Marie]] and then the Algoma Central trip to the [[Agawa Canyon]] on May 24, 1992.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Buchanan |first1 = Brian |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad |url = https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523771731218165/?multi_permalinks=2877823652479626 |via = Facebook |access-date = August 17, 2021 |language = en |archive-date = August 17, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210817023349/https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523771731218165/?multi_permalinks=2877823652479626 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 

These specials necessitated two special runs between the engine shops at Wells and the E&LS mainline at Pembine over [[Canadian National Railway|Canadian National Railroad]] trackage from North Escanaba to [[Powers, Michigan|Powers]] to [[Hermansville, Michigan|Hermansville]] and finally to Pembine.<ref>{{cite web |title = Excursion Thursday on the E&LS - Wisconsin Rails Episode 11 |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUYLukNYNU |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/vYUYLukNYNU |archive-date = December 21, 2021 |url-status = live |via = YouTube |author = Badger State Rails |access-date = July 14, 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Shippers Special===
The Shippers Special Train usually runs late spring-early summer from Pembine south to Howard and then back north to Channing. There the train stops in Channing for a short crew change and then train goes as far as Mass City.<ref>{{cite web |title = Riding the rails again |url = https://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/05/riding-the-rails-again/ |website = Daily News |location = Iron Mountain, Michigan |access-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-date = July 22, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170722003559/http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/local-news/2017/05/riding-the-rails-again/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = A rare Baldwin RS-12 locomotive - Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Shippers Special! |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahRyavH4K2o |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/ahRyavH4K2o |archive-date = December 21, 2021 |url-status = live |via = YouTube |first = Jason |last = Asselin |access-date = July 14, 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = Koprowicz |first1 = Michael |title = The Baldwin Diesel Zone - E&LS |url = http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk-els-story1.html |website = The Baldwin Diesel Zone |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = December 15, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221215180315/http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk-els-story1.html |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = Glischinski |first1 = Steve |title = ELS 400 Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad EMD GP38 at Merriman, Michigan by Steve Glischinski |url = https://www.railpictures.net/photo/129386/ |work = RailPictures.Net |access-date = December 12, 2021 |date = January 29, 1991 |quote = E&LS GP38 400 and Baldwin RS12 300 in E&LS' Great Northern style paint scheme pull a special freight train put together for shippers. Passenger cars are on the rear of the train for invited guests. |archive-date = December 12, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211212014817/https://www.railpictures.net/photo/129386/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> The Shippers Special Train did not run in 2020.

===American Honors Society Excellence In Education===
The American Honors Society train ran on the LS&I with little known of its running from 2010 to 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Langsford |first1 = Steven |title = Chicago And North Western Crossing M-35 South |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2042882 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = April 30, 2010 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809201740/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2042882 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> The Honors Train departs Eagle Mills and runs to the ore dock and returns. Several cars were used from E&LS and [[Lake Superior Railroad Museum]] with diesels supplied by the LS&I railroad.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Welke |first1 = Bob |title = AHS Train 4-30-10 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4566450583/in/photostream/ |via = Flickr |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = April 20, 2010 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809201740/https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4566450583/in/photostream/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> A coach seen running in the train, marked Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. (ELS marks), #1001 and City of Horicon was also seen in several year's trains.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Welke |first1 = Bob |title = WSOR 1001 4-30-10 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4567090444/in/photostream/ |via = Flickr |access-date = August 9, 2021 |quote = Originally a UP coach, formerly an Amtrak Heritage Fleet car in the 4600 series. |date = April 30, 2010 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809213135/https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4567090444/in/photostream/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>

===E&LS owned or leased passenger equipment===
Below is the E&LS rolling stock, many of which are used for the recent trains run behind E&LS engines S-12 #300 and GP-38 #400.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Koprowicz |first1 = Michael |title = E&LS |url = http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk2-els-story1.html |website = The Baldwin Diesel Zone |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = December 15, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221215180315/http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk2-els-story1.html |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad owned or leased Passenger Equipment<ref>{{cite web |first = Matthew |last = Moellendorf |title = Passenger Cars of the E&LS |url = http://www.trainweb.org/els300/ |website = Trainweb |access-date = June 12, 2021 }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last = Schandel |first = Tim |title = Museum's Track Seven Again a Busy Place During Winter Months |magazine = The Laker |publisher = Lake Superior Transportation Club |date = Winter 1990 |issue =  |pages = 4–5 |url = https://www.turbinecar.com/Laker-Files/1990-Laker-Winter.pdf |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714064100/https://www.turbinecar.com/Laker-Files/1990-Laker-Winter.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = Moellendorf |first1 = Matthew J. |title = Passenger Cars |url = https://els300.wordpress.com/passenger-cars/ |website = els300 |access-date = July 22, 2021 |language = en |date = March 23, 2012 |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722031631/https://els300.wordpress.com/passenger-cars/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 
|-
!Number !! Marked  !! Type !! Prev owners !! Other 
|-
| 100 || ELS || Coach || [[Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad]]. Built in 19?? ||Heavyweight 6 axle coach. Ex 'Trans Northern'.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Moore |first1 = Jeff |title = Algoma Railroad |url = http://www.mccloudriverrailroad.com/Subsidiaries/AlgomaRR.htm |website = www.mccloudriverrailroad.com |access-date = December 30, 2021 |archive-date = December 30, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211230021816/http://www.mccloudriverrailroad.com/Subsidiaries/AlgomaRR.htm |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = Welke |first1 = Bob |title = ELS 100 4-30-10 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4567090438/in/photostream/ |location = Eagle Mills, Mi |via = Flickr |publisher =  |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = April 30, 2010 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809194559/https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbw305/4567090438/in/photostream/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 254	|| ELS || HEP Generator/Baggage|| [[Northern_Pacific_Railway|Northern Pacific]]||Former NP traded to the E&LS by the [[Lake_Superior_Railroad_Museum|Lake Superior Railway Museum]] for a VIA Rail Power Car.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = Ladysmith Crowd Turns Out To Greet Special Excursion Train |magazine = The Laker |publisher = Lake Superior Transportation Club |date = Fall 1991 |issue =  |pages = 7–8 |url = https://www.turbinecar.com/Laker-Files/1991-Laker-Fall.pdf |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714064104/https://www.turbinecar.com/Laker-Files/1991-Laker-Fall.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
| 758	|| ELS || Parlor-Observation || [[Soo_Line_Railroad|Soo Line]] || Platform observation. Originally café-parlor observation. 6 axle. Built by Barney & Smith in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |title = E&LS |url = http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk2-els-story2.html |website = Baldwin Diesel Zone |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714211522/http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/els/mk2-els-story2.html |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 1001 || ELS || Coach || [[Wisconsin and Southern Railroad]] || Ex Amtrak, nee UP. 
|-
| 1082 || ELS ||Pullman-Observation|| Reserve Mining railroad,<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Martin |first1 = Lawrence A. |title = Railroads in Minnesota, Part II |url = https://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/minnrrs175.html |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = January 26, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210126202759/https://www.angelfire.com/mn/thursdaynighthikes/minnrrs175.html |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> ex [[Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)|GN]] 1082, nee "Dolly Madison".|| Not marked 1082 externally.
|-
| 1100 || ELS || Parlor - Sleeper || [[Via_Rail|VIA Rail]] ||HEP equipped parlor sleeper car "Mount Edith Cavell".<ref name="Lake Superior Museum Of Transportation">{{cite magazine |title = E&LS Sleeper 1100 Getting Finishing Touches On Its HEP |magazine = The Laker |publisher = Lake Superior Transportation Club |date = Spring 1991 |issue =  |page = 4 |url = https://docplayer.net/99291287-L-ke-s-perior-tr-port-tio-cl-8-l-ke-s-perior-m-e-of-tr-port-tio-spring-1991-lake-superior-and-mississippi-railroad.html |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210714060501/https://docplayer.net/99291287-L-ke-s-perior-tr-port-tio-cl-8-l-ke-s-perior-m-e-of-tr-port-tio-spring-1991-lake-superior-and-mississippi-railroad.html |url-status = live }}</ref> 
|-
| 1101 || ELS || Sleeper || [[Via_Rail|VIA Rail]] #1101. Built in 1954 ||HEP equipped sleeper car "Mount Robson". 
|-
| 1105<ref>{{cite web |first=Jason |last = Asselin |title=Almost 40 Years Being Hidden Away, This Rare Baldwin RF-16 "Sharknose" Appears!  |via=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsqYL3Gxe34 |access-date=December 3, 2021 |language=en-US |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203053513/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsqYL3Gxe34 |url-status=live }}</ref> || ELS || Sleeper || [[Via_Rail|VIA Rail]] #1105. Built in 1954 || Mount Tekarra
|-
| 1348 || ELS || Diner-Lounge || [[Via_Rail|VIA Rail]] ||HEP equipped Diner Lounge car. 
|-
| 1237	||ELS ||  	Coach || [[Soo_Line_Railroad|Soo Line]] || Stenciled "[[Soo_Line_Railroad|Soo Line]]" 6 axle. 
|-
| 6700	|| CNW || Parlor || [[Chicago_and_North_Western_Transportation_Company|C&NW]] [[Twin Cities 400]] parlor car "Deerpath"<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Norton |first1 = Richard |last2 = Testagrose |first2 = Joseph |title = C&NW 6700 at Chicago, IL 10-73 Richard Norton |url = http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?april13/04-11-13/C_NW6700atChicagoIL10-73RichardNortonScanColl.jpg |work = Railfan.net |access-date = October 16, 2021 |location = Chicago, IL |language = en-US |date = October 1973 |archive-date = October 16, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211016041457/http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?april13/04-11-13/C_NW6700atChicagoIL10-73RichardNortonScanColl.jpg |url-status = live }}</ref> || Owned by [[Lake_Superior_Railroad_Museum|Lake Superior Railway Museum]] and is stored on the E&LS.
|-
| 7000 || ELS ||Flatcar	|| unknown	|| Open air flatcar patio bar car (band 2018).
|-
|}

==Leased power==
After acquiring the Milwaukee Road line from Green Bay to Ontonagon, the E&LS needed more power to run their trains. The railroads and leasers were: [[Conrail]], [[Green Bay & Western]],<ref>{{cite web |last1 = White |first1 = Cody |title = Green Bay and Western C424 312 |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5490668 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = January 4, 1984 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809054135/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5490668 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> [[Lake Superior & Ishpeming]],<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Cleary |first1 = Mike |title = E&LS Mine Run Power at Channing, Michigan - March 15, 1980 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/altoona_sub/48717939757/ |via = Flickr |access-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |date = March 15, 1980 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809061145/https://www.flickr.com/photos/altoona_sub/48717939757/ |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> [[Milwaukee Road]],<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Berry |first1 = Dale |title = Channing, MI |url = http://www.michiganrailroads.com/stations-locations/86-dickinson-county-22/716-channing-mi |website = MichiganRailroads.com |access-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809055823/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/stations-locations/86-dickinson-county-22/716-channing-mi |url-status = live }}</ref> [[Cliffs_Erie_Railroad|Erie Mining]]<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Nut |first1 = F. M. |title = EMCO 4211 on the E&LS |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUs5tMtyEk |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/7PUs5tMtyEk |archive-date = December 21, 2021 |url-status = live |website = fmnut |via = YouTube |access-date = August 9, 2021 |language = en |date = 2003 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> and [[Soo Line Railroad|Soo Line]].<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Reese |first1 = Jeremy |title = SOO 700 at Wells on E&LS |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2737168 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = May 13, 2003 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809054134/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2737168 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = Vermande |first1 = Tim |title = SOO 212B |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5339655 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 9, 2021 |date = July 1, 1980 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809054134/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5339655 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 

Several of the Conrail units leased ended up being leased for several years and then purchased by E&LS.<ref name="g42"/>

==Active motive power==
[[File:Escanaba and Lake Superior F7 -600.jpg|thumb|ELS EMD F7 600 at Channing, Michigan on April 29, 2009]]
In 1985, the first [[Electro-Motive Diesel|EMD]] diesel, a [[EMD GP38|GP-38]] (E&LS 400) was purchased, followed shortly by additional GP-38s (ex-[[Conrail]] ELS 401 & 402) and 4 [[EMD SD9|SD9s]] (1220-1224).<ref name="g45">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 45}}.</ref> In 2003, the railroad bought two [[EMD SD40-2|SD-40-2s]] (ex-[[Electro-Motive Diesel|Electro-Motive Diesel Leasing]] E&LS 500 & 501), and, unusually, an [[EMD FP7|FP7]] (ELS 600) two years later. The FP7 was originally a [[Milwaukee Road]] FP7, then was bought by the [[Wisconsin and Southern Railroad|Wisconsin Southern]], and sold to the E&LS. The SD9s except for 1223 have been retired as of 2020. 1223 still operates in [[Wells Township, Delta County, Michigan|Wells]] and [[Escanaba, Michigan|Escanaba]], but it has been restricted from mainline service ever since an inspection found that the [[Prime mover (locomotive)|prime mover]] was failing. The engine can regularly be seen switching out E&LS customers in that area, and at the car maintenance facility in Escanaba, or at the E&LS engine shop at Wells, moving the stored engines and cars. 

In early January 2020, the railroad bought the ILSX SD40-2 #1344 and later in the year re-numbered it 502. The trucks from the since decommissioned [[EMD_SD40-2|SD-40-2]], E&LS 500, were replaced with the original worn-out trucks on E&LS 502. They were the original silver trucks from when the engine was a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] SD40-2. In May 2020, E&LS bought a former [[Grand Trunk Western Railroad|GTW]]/[[BNSF Railway]] EMD SD-40 and numbered it 503.<ref name="RRFW">{{cite web |title = Current Operational E&LS Locomotives |url = http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Escanaba_%26_Lake_Superior |website = Railroadfan.com Wiki |access-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210611024134/http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Escanaba_%26_Lake_Superior |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ As of November 13, 2023, the following locomotives are currently owned or leased by the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad.<REF name="RRFW"/><ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Comp Photographic Roster |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=ELS |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-date = October 30, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030114211/http://rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=ELS |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1 = WG |first1 = Thompson |title = Old Time Trains |url = http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ont/wg_thompson.htm |website = Trainweb |access-date = June 21, 2021 |archive-date = July 1, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190701004024/http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ont/wg_thompson.htm |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior |url = http://thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |access-date = January 10, 2022 |website = The Diesel Shop |archive-date = August 5, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210805003352/https://thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
!Number !! Model !! Status !! Other 
|-
| numberless || [[GE_45-ton_switcher|GE 45 Ton]] || Shop switcher || Built April 1953 as #31795. Ex White Pine Copper mine WPCR #1. 
|-
| 112 || Russel Snow Plow || Active || Built in 1967 from a 40 foot boxcar by the E&LS shop men at Wells to replace wooden Russell plow, entered service in 1968, is painted in company colors, stored at Channing, Mi.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Schults |first1 = Bernard |title = Here goes the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroads new snowplow |work = Escanaba Daily Press |date = January 15, 1968 }}{{page needed|date=June 2023}}</ref> 
|-
| 300 || [[Baldwin RS-12|RS-12]] || Active || Built January 1953 as # BLW 75767. Ex SAL 1474, ex SCL 215. Sold as Michigan Northern 215 in 1976. It was sold as E&LS 215 in 1980 and rebuilt in 1982 as ELS 300. Painted in ELS scheme. 
|-
| 400 || [[EMD GP38|GP38]] || Active || Built May 1970 as # EMD 36459. Ex Conrail 7843, nee PC 7843. Sold as E&LS 401 in 1985 and renumbered 2nd 400 in 1986. Painted in ELS scheme. 
|-
| 402 || [[EMD GP38|GP38]] || Active || Built September 1969 as # EMD 35401. Ex Conrail 7772, nee Penn Central 7772. Sold to E&LS in 1985. 
|-
| 501 || [[EMD SD40-2|SD40-2]] || Active || Built July 1973 as #EMD 72641-2. Ex EMDX 6306, ex SOO RR 6306, nee Milwaukee Road 22. 
|-
| 502 || [[EMD SD40-2|SD40-2]] || Active || Built January 1980 as # 796297-35. Ex Union Pacific 3693, ex SLRG 202, ex ILSX 202, ex ILSX 1344. Trucks swapped With ELS 500. 
|-
| 503 || [[EMD SD40|SD40]] || Active || Built January 1970 as # 7221. Ex ILSX 1338, GTW 5915, ex BNSF 7303. Painted in patched out BNSF H1 paint scheme. 
|- 
| 600 || [[EMD FP7|FP7]] || Active || Built January 1951 as # EMD 10361. Ex Wisconsin & Southern 71A, ex Wisconsin & Calumet 96A, ex Milwaukee Road 96A. Acquired June 2005. Returned to service in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Mike |first1 = Yuhas |title = E&LS 600 - Suamico, Wisconsin, 4/27/2008 |url = http://www.mikeyuhas.org/albums/2008/20088019.php |website = MikeyUhas.org |access-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722035845/http://www.mikeyuhas.org/albums/2008/20088019.php |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 1200 || [[EMD SW8|SW8]] || Active || Built June 1952 as #16925. Ex Reserve Mining 1200. It was sold as E&LS 1200 in 1992.
|-
| 1201 || [[EMD SW8|SW8]] || Active || Built June 1952 as #6412. Ex Reserve Mining 1201. Based in Menominee, secondary locomotive. 
|-
| 1202 || [[EMD_SW7|TR4A]] || Active || Built September 1950 as #4032. Ex Belt Railway of Chicago BRC 503. TR4A is a cow-calf version of EMD SW7. Based in Menominee.
|-
| 1223 || [[EMD SD9|SD9]] || Limited service|| Built September 1956 as #21066. Ex Reserve Mining 1223. It was sold as E&LS 1223 in 1992. Assigned to Wells as backup switching power, restricted from interchange. 
|-
| 1371 || [[EMD SW1]] || in service? || Built November 1950 # 11222. Ex ILSX 1371, ex WPCR 1371, ex Amtrak 740, ex Amtrak 253:1, ex PC 8528, nee PRR 9428. 
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Dinner train (95614622).jpg|E&LS 106 in Fox Lake, IL 1 July 1993
File:Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad 207 at Channing, MI on October 5, 1988 (22338370013).jpg|ELS #207 at Channing, MI on October 5, 1988
File:ELS 501 2.png|Escanaba & Lake Superior SD40-2 in Coleman, WI
File:ELS 503 1.png|E&LS 503 running on CN trackage rights in Green Bay, WI
File:E&LS 600 4.jpg|ELS 600 & 402 in Pembine
File:3 Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Photos (25462482346).jpg|E&LS SD9 and SW8, both former Reserve Mining locomotives.<ref>{{Cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior |url = http://thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |access-date = January 10, 2022 |website = The Diesel Shop |archive-date = August 5, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210805003352/https://thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
File:E&LS 503 Pembine WI.png|E&LS 503 & 402 pull a train in Beecher, Wi.
File:3 Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Photos (25462494936).jpg|Wells, Michigan
File:ELS 501 Stalling @ Woodale.jpg|'''ELS 501 Stalling @ Woodale'''
</gallery>

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==Inactive motive power==
When it began operations, the E&LS used steam locomotives purchased second hand from other railroads in the Midwest.<ref name="g43"/> It bought a new Shay locomotive for logging service in 1904, followed by various locomotives from [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]].<ref name="g44">{{harvp|Glischinski|2007|p= 44}}.</ref> The E&LS first diesel locomotive, a [[Baldwin VO-1000]], was purchased in 1946.<ref name="g44"/> The E&LS continued buying new and used Baldwins for the next several decades. Some notable mentions are the E&LS 300, the engine that can often be seen running the Shippers Special train.

Other locomotives include the Baldwin RS-12s 207-217 series. 10 RS-12s have either been sold off or put in a deadline at the E&LS Wells Facility. Other engines are the E&LS [[Baldwin_RF-16|Shark Nose Baldwin]]'s, originally from the Delaware & Hudson RR (D&H), numbered 1205 & 1216. Other notable mentions are engines 100 & 101, a pair of [[Baldwin DS-4-4-660|DS44-660]]s. The 101 can still be seen in Wells with its [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|GN]] inspired paint scheme. The railroad also owns two Ex-[[Wisconsin & Calumet Railroad|Wisconsin & Calumet (WICT)]] [[EMD F7|F7A]]s and a F7B. There were several other engines, the 201, 202, & 204. These were the [[Baldwin DS-4-4-1000|DS44-1000s]]. 

{| class="wikitable"
|+ All #'s below are out of service (OOS) as of July 14, 2021.<ref name="g44"/><ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior |url = https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2253.htm |website = Don's Rail Photos |publisher = Don Ross Group |access-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210611021117/https://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2253.htm |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior |url = http://www.thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |website = The Diesel Shop |publisher = R. Craig |access-date = June 11, 2021 |archive-date = June 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210609124447/http://www.thedieselshop.us/ELS.HTML |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref name="HS9538">{{cite web |last1 = Stoner |first1 = Claude Thomas |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior No. 16 4-6-0, Baldwin #29721 1909 |url = https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs9538/hs9538 |website = Bentley Image Bank |publisher = Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Library |access-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711223738/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs9538/hs9538 |url-status = live }}</ref>
|-
!Number !! Model !! Status !! Other 
|-
| 1 || [[Plymouth_Locomotive_Works |Plymouth]] 25 Ton || Inactive || Built April 1936. Ex B&D RR Co. Lettered for the fictitious Buckwheat & Durham Railroad (B&D). Originally used as the Crivitz yard switcher.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Potts |first1 = Andy |title = ELS #1 Plymouth 25 ton switcher |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4396317 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = July 17, 2022 |language = en-US |date = November 4, 2008 |archive-date = July 17, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220717193347/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4396317 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 
|-
| 7 || Shay || Sold || Built by Lima Locomotive Works in January 1904. Sold August 1920. 
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| 8 || Baldwin 2-8-0 || Sold || Built June 1904. Sold August 1929. 
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| 9 || Baldwin 2-8-0 || Sold || Built June 1904. 
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| 10 || Baldwin 2-8-0 || Sold || Built June 1907. 
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| 11 || Baldwin 4-6-0 || Sold || Built June 1909. 
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| 11 || Whitcomb 80 tonner || ? || <ref>{{cite web |last1 = Wigfield |first1 = Vern |title = ELS 11 in 1980 |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=390596 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-date = August 9, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210809055314/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=390596 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 12 || Baldwin 4-6-0 || Sold || Built June 1911. 
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| 14 || Baldwin 4-6-0 || Sold || Built June 1917 s/n #4503. Sold to Arcade & Attica Railroad in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Vondrak |first1 = Otto |title = Arcade & Attica 14 at Arcade, NY, August 1963 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/ottomatic77/50715816173/in/pool-1364176@N21/ |via = Flickr |access-date = July 12, 2021 }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title = Last Steamer of E&LS Sold For Excursion Use |work = Escanaba Daily Press |date = April 4, 1963 |page = 5 }}</ref> 
|-
| 15 || Baldwin 4-6-0 || Sold || Built June 1909 as #29721. Bought used from Duluth & Northern Minnesota in 1922.<ref name="g44"/>
|-
| 16 || Baldwin 4-6-0 || Sold || Built June 1909 as #29721. Bought used from Duluth & Northern Minnesota in 1922. Retired and sold to Nahma and Northern Railroad in 1937.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Stoner |first1 = Claude Thomas |title = ELS1: Escanaba & Lake Superior No. 16 4-6-0, Baldwin #29721 1909, Later Nahma & Northern No. 16 |url = https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs9538/hs9538 |website = Bentley Image Bank |publisher = Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Library |access-date = September 26, 2022 |language = en-US |date = March 12, 2016 |archive-date = July 11, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711223738/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs9538/hs9538 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="g44"/>
|-
| 17 || 0-6-0 || Sold || Bought used in 1929. 
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| 18 || Alco 4-6-0 || Sold || Built 1913 for GB&W. Purchased 1935<ref name= Duchaine >{{cite news |first = William |last = Duchaine |date = December 27, 1950 |title = History of Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad |url = http://www.elsrr.com/about-a.htm |newspaper = Escanaba Daily Press |via = E&LS Railroad |access-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-date = August 14, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200814041129/http://www.elsrr.com/about-a.htm |url-status = live }}</ref> 
|-
| 100 || [[Baldwin VO-1000|VO-1000]] || Scrapped 1974 || Built June 1946 as # BLW 72227. Later Nahma & Northern No. 16. 
|-
| 101 || [[Baldwin DS-4-4-660|DS-4-4-660]] || OOS || Built November 1947 as # BLW 73367. Painted in E&LS scheme. 
|-
| 102 || [[Baldwin S-8]] || OOS || Built May 1952 as # BLW 75700. 
|-
| 102B || [[EMD F7|F7B]] || OOS || Built October 1951 as # EMD 15243. Ex Wisconsin & Calumet, ex Wisconsin & Southern 71A, ex Milwaukee Road 102B. 
|-
| 106 || [[EMD F7|F7A]] || OOS || Built November 1951 as # EMD 15218. Ex Wisconsin & Calumet 106, ex Janesville & Eastern 106, ex Milwaukee Road 117C. 
|-
| 201 || [[Baldwin DS-4-4-1000|DS44-1000]]|| OOS || Built July 1948 as # BLW 73956. Ex Calumet & Hecla 201. Sold to E&LS in 1971.{{cn|date=June 2023}} 
|-
| 202 || Baldwin DS-4-4-1000|DS44-1000|| OOS || Built August 1948 as # BLW 73957. Ex Calumet & Hecla 202. 
|-
| 204 || Baldwin DS-4-4-1000|DS44-1000|| OOS || Built May 1950 as # BLW 74777. Ex Calumet & Hecla 204 nee US Corps of Engineers L4. To E&LS in 1971.
|-
| 207 || [[Baldwin RS-12|RS-12]] || OOS || Built May 1952 as BLW #75475. Ex [[Seaboard_Air_Line_Railroad|Seaboard Air Line]] 207, ex Seaboard Coast Line 207, ex [[Oregon,_California_and_Eastern_Railway|Oregon California & Eastern]] 7908, ex Oregon California & Eastern 207. To E&LS December 1984. Leased to [[Nicolet_Badger_Northern_Railroad|Nicolet Badger Northern]] in the early 90s.
|-
| 209 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built May 1952 as #75477. Ex Seaboard Air Line RR 1468, ex [[Seaboard_Coast_Line_Railroad|Seaboard Coast Line]] 209, ex Oregon California & Eastern 7909. Acquired in May 1984. 
|-
| 210 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built May 1952 as #75478. Ex Seaboard Air Line 1469, Ex Seaboard Coast Line 210, ex Oregon California & Eastern 7910. Sold to E&LS as #210 in May 1984. 
|-
| 211 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built May 1952 as #75479. Ex Seaboard Air Line 1470, ex Seaboard Coast Line 211, ex Oregon California & Eastern 7911. Sold to E&LS as #211 in December 1985. 
|-
| 212 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built May 1952 as # BLW 75480. Ex Michigan Northern 212, ex Seaboard Coast Line 212, nee Seaboard Air Line 1471. To E&LS 1980. 
|-
| 213 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built January 1953 as # BLW 75765. Ex Michigan Northern 213, ex Seaboard Coast Line 213, nee Seaboard Air Line 1472. To E&LS 1980. 
|-
| 214 || Baldwin RS-12|RS-12 || OOS || Built January 1953 as #75766. Ex Seaboard Air Line 1473, ex Seaboard Coast Line 214, sold to Birmingham Rail & Locomotive Co. It was sold as Neosha Construction Co. 6494 and sold as E&LS #210 in 1983. It was renumbered 214 in 1984. While in transit to E&LS it was numbered E&LS 711.<ref>{{cite web |title = ELS 214 - Taken on July 5, 2011 |url = https://www.flickr.com/photos/47914832@N02/5924986830/in/pool-1364176@N21/ |via = Flickr |author = MN Transfer |access-date = July 12, 2021 }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref>
|-
| 401 || [[EMD GP38|GP38]] || OOS || Used as a parts source at Escanaba shop. Built October 1969 as # EMD 35438, later Penn Central 7809 then Conrail 7809. Sold as E&LS 400 in 1985. It was renumbered to 401 in 1986 and retired by 1992.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Bunce |first1 = Greg |title = Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad : ELS #401 in the deadline in Wells in the Winter of 1991-92 after being taken out of service. |url = https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523771731218165/posts/2893144984280826/ |via = Facebook |access-date = September 8, 2021 |language = en }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 
|-
| 500 || [[EMD SD40-2|SD40-2]] ||OOS || Built June 1974 as # EMD 73687-1. Ex GATX 7349/9339/6349, ex S00 RR 6349, nee Milwaukee Road 182 2nd. OOS engine failure. 
|-
| 901 || [[EMD F7|F7A]] || OOS || Built July 1949 as # EMD 8358. Ex Wisconsin & Calumet 109, ex Chicago Chemung Railroad<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Young |first1 = David |title = Long and Short of Short Lines |url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-12-13-9412130174-story.html |work = Chicago Tribune |access-date = July 14, 2021 }}</ref> CMN 562, ex ACLZ 64, ex [[Denver_and_Rio_Grande_Western_Railroad|Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad]] 5644, nee Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad 564D. 
|-
| 950 || [[EMD F7|F7B]] || OOS ||  Built July 1950 as EMD # 3035. Ex Wisconsin & Calumet, Milwaukee Road #X1{{cn|date=June 2023}}<ref>{{cite web |title = Pictures of MILW X1 |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=60385 |website = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = August 4, 2021 |archive-date = August 4, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210804024912/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=60385 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> 

a [[Rotary_snowplow|Rotary Snow Plow]] power car, nee Milwaukee Road 71B. Sold to E&LS by [[Lake Superior Railroad Museum]]
|-
| 1205 || [[Baldwin RF-16|Baldwin RF16A]] || OOS || Built December 1951. Ex Michigan Northern 1205, ex Delaware & Hudson RR 1205, ex Monongahela Railway 1205, nee NYC 3805. Baldwin "Shark Nose". Stored in warehouse. To E&LS in 1979.
|-
| 1216 || Baldwin RF-16|Baldwin RF16A || OOS || Built 1952. Ex Michigan Northern 1216, ex Delaware & Hudson RR 1216, ex Monongahela Railway 1216, ex NYC 1216, nee NYC 3816. Baldwin "Shark Nose". Stored in warehouse. To E&LS in 1979.
|-
| 1220 || [[EMD SD9|SD9]] || OOS || Built June 1955 as #19989. Ex Reserve Mining 1220. It was sold as E&LS 1220 in 1992 and stored for parts. 
|-
| 1221 || EMD SD9|SD9 || OOS || Built June 1955 as #19990. Ex Reserve Mining 1221. It was sold as EL&S 1221 in 1992. 
|-
| 1222 || EMD SD9|SD9 || OOS || Built June 1955 as #19991. Ex Reserve Mining 1222. It was sold as E&LS 1222 in 1992. 
|-
| 1224 || EMD SD9|SD9 || OOS || Built December 1956 as #5485. Ex Reserve Mining 1224. It was sold as E&LS 1224 in 1992.
|}

==Facilities, yards, and lines==
{{Columns-start}}
===Engine shops===
* [[Wells Township, Delta County, Michigan|Wells]]
* [[Escanaba, Michigan|Escanaba]] old Harnischfeger (P&H Crane) facility

===Railroad yards===
* [[Channing, Michigan|Channing]]
* [[Crivitz, Wisconsin|Crivitz]] repair-in-place (RIP) railcar facility<ref>{{cite magazine |title = Rising Star: Mike Logan, Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad |url = https://www.progressiverailroading.com/people/article/Rising-Star-Mike-Logan-Escanaba-Lake-Superior-Railroad--48858 |magazine = Progressive Railroading |access-date = July 22, 2021 |language = en |archive-date = July 22, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210722005455/https://www.progressiverailroading.com/people/article/Rising-Star-Mike-Logan-Escanaba-Lake-Superior-Railroad--48858 |url-status = live }}</ref>
* [[Iron Mountain, Michigan|Iron Mountain]]

===Engine housing facilities===
* Channing
* Crivitz
* [[Menominee, Michigan|Menominee]]
* Wells
{{Column}} 
===Bulk transfer and wood yards===
* [[Amasa,_Michigan|Amasa]]
* Crivitz (2)
* [[Sagola_Township,_Michigan|Floodwood]] - bulk transfer
* Iron Mountain - bulk transfer
* [[Mass City, Michigan|Mass City]]
* [[Beecher,_Wisconsin|McConnell Landing]] - station name
* [[Pembine, Wisconsin|Pembine]] (2)
* [[Randville,_Michigan|Randville]]
* [[Sidnaw,_Michigan|Sidnaw, Mi]] - bulk transfer
* [[Sobieski_Corners,_Wisconsin |Sobieski]]
{{Columns-end}}

[[File:Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad Channing depot 2023.jpg|thumb|right|The old railway depot in Channing.]]
[[File:ELS 401.jpg|thumb|right|E&LS 401 sits at the E&LS car shops in Escanaba; since 1991 the unit has been a parts source.]]

==Interchange locations==
The E&LS interchanges with the [[Canadian National Railway|Canadian National Railroad]] in several different locations:
* [[Escanaba_Township,_Michigan|North Escanaba]], Michigan
* [[Howard, Wisconsin]]
* [[Pembine, Wisconsin]]
* [[Marinette, Wisconsin]]

==Trackage rights==
In late 2014, the E&LS and [[Canadian National Railway]] entered into a switching agreement to switch customers of CN in Marinette and Menominee. All traffic is given to the E&LS at Marinette; E&LS delivers loads or empties from both railroad's customers in those communities.<ref>{{cite magazine |title = MRA Rail Update |magazine = MRA Rail Update |date = Spring 2018 |page = 3 |url = https://michiganrailroadsassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-Spring-Rail-Update-web.pdf |access-date = July 14, 2021 |archive-date = September 24, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200924023625/https://michiganrailroadsassociation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-Spring-Rail-Update-web.pdf |url-status = live }}</ref> This created a big costs and time savings for both railroads as it greatly simplified operations in these twin cities.

The E&LS RR has trackage rights on several parts of the Canadian National Railroad.
* [[Howard, Wisconsin|Howard]], to North [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]] Yard in Green Bay, Wisconsin (These once extended to the Milwaukee's Oakland Avenue Yard, in downtown Green Bay via the WC, past the C&NW Green Bay station)
* [[Pembine, Wisconsin|Pembine]] to [[Escanaba Township, Michigan|North Escanaba]]

==Existing stations==
{{Expand list|date=January 2022}}
As of January 2022:
* Crivitz - former [[Milwaukee and Northern Railway Company]] then [[Milwaukee Road]] depot built in 1883. Now owned by E&LS. This area was previously referred to as Ellis Junction.
* Iron Mountain - former [[Milwaukee and Northern Railway Company]] then [[Milwaukee Road]] depot built in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Bruss |first1 = T. P. |title = MILW Iron Mountain, MI Depot |url = http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5051617  |work = Railroad Picture Archives |access-date = February 3, 2022 |date = November 3, 2018 |archive-date = February 3, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220203065858/http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5051617 |url-status = live }}{{sps|certain=yes|date=June 2023}}</ref> Now owned by E&LS.
* Ontonagon - former [[Ontonagon and Brule River Railroad]] then [[Milwaukee Road]] depot built in ?. Now owned by ? .{{citation-needed|date=January 2022}}

Section houses:
* Randville
* Sidnaw

<gallery mode="packed">
File:Amberg Wisconsin Train Depot.jpg|Amberg, WI
File:Amasa_MI_Historic_District_A.jpg|Amasa, MI
File:Channing depot.jpg|[[Channing, Michigan|Channing, MI]]
File:Frost - panoramio.jpg|Frost, MI
File:Milwaukee Road Depot (Marinette, Wisconsin) September 2013 02.jpg|Marinette, WI
File:Menominee Michigan Railroad Station.jpg|[[Menominee_station|Menominee, MI]]
File:Pembine Train Station.jpg|Pembine, WI, burned 2019<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Alexander D.|last= Mitchell IV|title=Wisconsin depot burns |url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/18-wisconsin-depot-burns/|magazine=Trains|language=en-US|date=June 18, 2019|quote=according to local media sources, burned the structure to the foundation, rendering it a complete loss.|access-date=January 25, 2022|archive-date=January 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125054718/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/18-wisconsin-depot-burns/|url-status=live}}</ref>
File:Pori - panoramio.jpg|Pori, MI
File:CNW wayfreight passing the MILW station at Stiles Jct., WI in September 1964. (27224122431).jpg|C&NW freight passing the MILW station at Stiles Junction, WI, in September 1964
</gallery>

==See also==
*{{portal-inline|Railways}}

==References==
{{reflist}} 

== Further reading ==
*{{Cite magazine |title = Adventures of a railroad station agent |first = Steve |last = Glischinski |date = March 18, 2022 |magazine = Classic Trains |url = https://www.trains.com/ctr/railroad-stories/adventures-of-a-railroad-station-agent/ |access-date = March 24, 2023 |language = en-US }}

==External links==
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*[https://bridgehunter.com/category/railroad/escanaba-lake-superior-railroad/ Bridgehunter - E&LS topic]
*[http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=ELS Engine List - E&LS - RRpicturesarchive]
*[http://railroadfan.com/wiki/index.php/Escanaba_%26_Lake_Superior#Escanaba_.26_Lake_Superior_Customers Escanaba & Lake Superior Customers]
*{{Cite book |date = 2014 |title = Rural Freight Rail and Multimodal Transportation Improvements: The Upper Peninsula of Michigan |url = https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/RC1606C_470325_7.pdf |url-status = live |location = Houghton |publisher = Michigan Technological University Rail Transportation Program |via = Michigan Department of Transportation Office of Research and Best Practices |type = Final report |first1 = Pasi |last1 = Lautala |first2 = Gregory |last2 = Graman |first3 = Frank |last3 = Pentti |first4 = David |last4 = Nelson |first5 = Irfan |last5 = Rasul |first6 = Akalu |last6 = Tafesse |first7 = Sean |last7 = Pengelly |first8 = Sumanth |last8 = Kalluri |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170203011308/http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/RC1606C_470325_7.pdf |archive-date = February 3, 2017 }}
*[http://railroadfan.com/els.php B1G - The Big Train - railroadfan.com Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad (ELS)]
*[http://www.elsrr.com/ E&LS RR web site] — official corporate site
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160913132022/http://www.elsrr.com/railfan%20images/dollymd1.jpg Dolly Madison] - Parlor Observation car
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523771731218165/ Escanaba & Lake Superior] - public Facebook group, 3.1k members

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