Station: Presque Isle, MI

Presque Isle is located on the north side of Marquette along Lake Superior. It was established as a village in 1840. In 1860 a cordwood operations was established here and docks and a boat landing installed. [MPN]

Presque Isle was a station on the Big Bay branch of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railroad north of downtown Marquette.

Photo Info: A postcard view of a Marquette & Huron Mountain railway train loading passengers in the 1960's. This railroad took over LS&I's Big Bay branch and ran freight and tourist passenger trains for a time.

Notes

Presque Isle was the location of the iron ore dock of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railroad (Cleveland Cliffs), as well as their West Yard (predominantly iron ore for the dock), their locomotive facilities (steam and later diesel) and a coal unloading facility which operated in conjunction with a nearby electrical power plant.

Station. The LS&I Presque Isle station was built in 1896 and served as a transfer point between the railroad and the Marquette trolley system. This is a one-story frame structure 25' by 50' long with a sharply pitched hipped roof. The station was moved about 200' to its present site in 1963 when the LS&I sold it to the Marquette and Huron Mountain Railroad which operated the station including a restaurant. [UPM]

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