ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD (ELS)
E&LS DISTRICT
MilepostLocation
Notes
0
Division Point Jct.
CN junction
1.3
Yard
Siding – 1,300’ / Yard – 6 tracks / Power Plant Siding – 0.4
1.7
CN crossing
2.9
C&NW Jct.
3.2
North Escanaba
Soo Jct.
3.8
Mead Switch
Siding – 2,530’ / Yard – 1 track / Lime Stone Quarry
4.5
Groos
10.8
Chandler
Siding – 840’
14.8
Cornell
Pulp loading
xx.x
Kingsley
19.5
Woodland
Siding – 1,080’
23.1
Hendricks
27.2
Watson
Siding – 1,360’
30.6
Mashek
31.6
Arnold
34.4
Reade
xx.x
Northland
Siding – 2,410’
39.3
Alfred
Pulp loading
xx.x
Beginning of line
46.9
Ralph
Siding – 2,350’ / Pulp loading
49.7
Henderson
Siding – 1,780’
53.0
Turner
xx.x
Golden
63.1
E&LS junction
Channing
CUSTOMERS
PEMBINE DISTRICT
MilepostLocation
Notes
Howard Jct.
5.7
WC junction
Sobieski
15.9
Abrams
19.9
Stiles Jct.
27.1
Oconto Falls Branch junction
Lena
31.9
Crivitz Jct.
51.8
Menominee Branch junction
Crivitz Yard
52.1
Beecher Lake
76.5
Pembine Jct.
81.1
WC crossing
State Line
92.7
Kingsford
93.8
Iron Mountain Jct.
95.0
WC junction
Iron Mountain
96.9
Merriman
102.5
xxx.x
Channing
Ontonagon Branch junction / Siding – 3,470
xxx.x
Yard – 8 4 tracks
Channing Yard
118.6
Channing
118.8
xxx
E&LS Jct.
E&LS junction
End of line
120.3
CUSTOMERS
OCONTO FALLS BRANCH
MilepostLocation
Notes
Stiles Jct.
8.2
Pembine Sub junction
Oconto Falls
12.7
End of line
12.9
CUSTOMERS
MENOMINEE BRANCH
MilepostLocation
Notes
0.0
Crivitz Jct.
Pembine Sub junction
6.0
Loomis
12.0
Porterfield
19.0
Scott Paper Jct.
20.2
Marinette
CN crossing
22.3
Menominee
CUSTOMERS
SIDNAW DISTRICT
MilepostLocation
Notes
0
Ontonagon Jct.
Pembine Sub junction
4.1
Kiernan Spur
Siding – 1,780’
7.8
Kelso Jct.
Siding – 940’ / C&NW junction
13.1
Mitchell Spur
15.5
Balsam
16.4
Porter Mine junction
16.8
Warner Mine junction / Pulp loading - 0.5
20.1
Amasa
Siding – 1,690’
21.5
Triangle Spur
Siding – 230’ / Pulp loading
33.2
Park Siding
Siding – 2,210’
39.2
Tunis
xx.x
Nestoria Branch junction
xx.x
Nestoria Branch crossing
45.6
Sidnaw
Siding – 1,450 / Nestoria Branch junction
xx.x
East Wye switch
xx.x
West Wye switch
56.6
Frost
Siding – 1,920’
xx.x
Findley Jct.
65.9
Pori
Siding – 1,880
67.9
Rousseau
70.2
Wasas
70.8
Wainola
72.8
McKeever
73.5
Mass Station
Siding – 1,640’ / 2 Pulp loadings / Plutchak
Spur – 0.3
80.8
Rockland
Pulp loading
86.8
Wood Spur
92.1
South Wye switch
92.2
North Wye switch / Smurfit-Stone Industrial Track junction
92.4
Ontonagon
Siding – 1,220’ / Yard – 1 track
92.7
End of line
CUSTOMERS
NESTORIA BRANCH
MilepostLocation
Notes
223.1
Beginning of line / Pulp loading – 0.3
223.8
Sidnaw
Siding – 1,640’ / Sidnaw District junction / Pulp loading
218.2
Watton
Siding – 610’
215.0
Covington
Siding – 1,310’
211.0
Vermilac
Siding – 1,830
205.4
Tioga
200.9
Nestoria Jct.
Siding – 2,680’ / Yard – 1 track / CN junction
CUSTOMERS
SMURFIT-STONE INDUSTRIAL TRACK
MilepostLocation
Notes
0
North Wye switch / Sidnaw District junction
0.9
Plant switch
1.3
End of line / Yard – 1 track
CUSTOMERS
Ontonagon – Smurfit Stone:
1
21 inbound (coal) cars per week (1,092 annually)
2
xxx inbound (pulp logs) cars per xxx (xxx annually)
3
16-20 outbound (wood pulp) cars per day (4,590 annually)
ENGINE ROSTER
NOS.
MOD.
H.P.BLDR.
BLT.
ReBLT.
AQRD.
RET.
NOTES
400-402
GP38
2,000
EMD
1969
Ex-CR 8260, 8273, xxxx.
1200, 1201
SW8
800
EMD
1952
Ex-RM, same nos.
1220-1224
SD9
1,750
EMD
1955
Ex-RM, same nos.
SCHEDULE
Train#
Departs
Arrives
Freq.
Notes
* Escanaba Switcher:
* Ontonagon Switcher:
* Ontonagon Turn:
* Channing-Crivitz Turn:
* Crivitz-Menominee Turn:
* Green Bay-Crivitz Turn:
ESCANABA & LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD (ELS)
ESCANABA SUBDIVISION
MilepostLocation
Notes
Larch
3.7
CN junction / Trackage rights on CN to Escanaba Yard
Brampton
12.5
Lathrop
29.3
Little Lake
40.7
Swanzy Jct.
44.1
Sawyer Industrial Track Jct.
Partridge Siding
59.4
Partridge Wye
59.8
Palmer Jct.
60.1 / Q-68.3
LS&I junction / Trackage rights on LS&I to Eagle Mills Jct.
Eagle Mills Jct.
60.8 / Q-67.6
LS&I junction / Trackage rights on LS&I to Palmer Jct.
Ishpeming Jct.
61.7
Ishpeming Sub junction
Escanaba Jct.
62.4
Ishpeming Sub junction
SAWYER INDUSTRIAL TRACK
MilepostLocation
Notes
Swanzy Jct.
0
Escanaba Subdivision junction
End of line
1.8
ISHPEMING SUBDIVISION
MilepostLocation
Notes
Eagle Mills
161.9
LS&I crossing
Escanaba Jct.
162.7
Escanaba Sub junction
Ishpeming Jct.
162.7
Escanaba Sub junction
Hogan Wye
163.3
Escanaba Sub and Marquette Branch junction
Hogan Yard
163.5
LS&I junction
Negaunee
165.9
Ishpeming
170.2
Euclid Yard
170.7
Winthrop Jct.
172.1
Greenwood Siding
176.2
Humboldt Jct.
182.7
LS&I Republic Branch junction
Champion
185.7
Nestoria Jct.
200.9
L’Anse Branch junction
L’ANSE BRANCH
MilepostLocation
Notes
Nestoria Jct.
0
Ishpeming Sub junction
Bovine
14.7
Celotex Jct.
16.9
Celotex Industrial Track junction
CELOTEX INDUSTRIAL TRACK
MilepostLocation
Notes
Celotex Jct.
0
L’Anse Branch junction
End of line
1.0
ENGINE ROSTER
NOS.
QTY.
MODEL
BUILDER
DATE
NOTES
SCHEDULE
* :
Lately it's been real busy. There have been 5 trains a day running in each direction.
The most interesting feature may be that WC SD45's still rule the roost, as CN power
has displaced WC power throughout much of the WC system.
L-539, the Esky-Sawyer turn, is usually out of Escanaba around 7AM northbound.
Occassionally they run all the way to Partridge & back, but usually just Sawyer. Well,
they switch the pulpwood track at Sands too I guess. Anyway, they run Monday-
Friday with 1 engine usually. Back into Escanaba mid-late afternoon.
SORE 1 is the next northbound, leaving about 10AM. They're usually the
"Miscellaneous Road Freight" of the UP (in Missabe terms). Handles the Tilden-Soo all-
rail ore, usually other interchange cars for the LS & I, cars for Ishpeming job, and
usually a cut of Empire-Esky ore. They leave Esky 10AMish. They are around your
neck on the woods in the early-mid afternoon, and back into Esky in the evening.
SORE 2 is the mid-afternoon train out of Esky, usually handles just Empire-Escanaba
ore.
SORE 3 is a late evening/night departure from Escanaba, and is back into Esky early
morning, usually after dawn. They usually carry the Empire limestone northbound from
the C. Reiss dock in Esky, and ore pellets south.
SORE 4 departs Escanaba northbound at night, and is back southbound into Esky in
morning. Empire-Escanaba ore pellets usually.
Lately there has been a train called L-549; basically the Ishpeming job running 1-way
to Escanaba on Saturday, then back to Ishpeming Sunday, switching Sawyer on the
way too.
I've seen any train handle and do anything, though. Like SORE 1 running to Ishpeming
& back from Partridge to set-out an engine, or SORE 3 bringing cars to Lousiana-
Pacific at Sawyer. But the above is the typical (if there is such a thing) day.
