Company History: This railroad was owned by the copper mining company of the same name. It linked processing mills along Torch Lake with the mines to the north on the Keweenaw Peninsula, all in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The line began as the Hecla & Torch Lake but a 1923 expansion brought a name change to C&H. Around the same time they also acquired the Traprock Valley Railroad. The line was dieselized with Baldwin power (also popular with fellow Upper Peninsula roads Duluth South Shore & Atlantic, Escanaba & Lake Superior, and Copper Range Railroad.) With the ore starting to run out, the mine workers went on strike in August of 1968. The railroad closed. In 1970, with no agreement in sight, the pumps were turned off and the copper mines allowed to flood. That was that.
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