Railroad Details
Scale
HO
Status
Active
Superintendent
Robert Welke
Subdivision
Houghton Division
Interchange
C&NW, LS&I, E&LS
Locale
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Era
Fall 1982
Layout Size
26x32 feet, plus ore dock
Control
NCE
Dispatching
Track Warrant
Communication
Phones and Family Radio System
Forwarding
Car Card and Waybill
Crew Size
10-12
Scale
HO
Status
Active
Superintendent
Robert Welke
Subdivision
Houghton Division
Interchange
C&NW, LS&I, E&LS
Locale
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Era
Fall 1982
Layout Size
26x32 feet, plus ore dock
Control
NCE
Dispatching
Track Warrant
Communication
Phones and Family Radio System
Forwarding
Car Card and Waybill
Crew Size
10-12
The W&UM is set in the Marquette Range of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the fall of 1982. The railroad is freelanced based on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic as if it hadn’t been sold to the Canadian Pacific during the depression.
The railroad has a good overhead traffic base but ore operations are featured with several mines and a 9-foot ore dock. Ore is also interchanged with the Chicago & Northwestern and Lake Superior & Ishpeming.
Railroad is single level, has two yards and enough traffic to keep a crew busy for a four hour session.
Photos from the Wisconsin & Upper Michigan
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