Location: Upper Yard, Marquette, MI - DSS&A

DSS&A's Upper Yard was located along their main line west of downtown and their ore dock. This yard also had a roundhouse and turntable (in the steam era) and an engine service facility (in the diesel era).

Notes

The DSS&A had a water tank here, at the roundhouse. [DSSM].

Image Info: Top, the DSS&A coaling tower at Marquette's Upper Yard in 1964 after the end of steam locomotives. Note the Soo and DSS&A diesel locomotives in the distance. [R.W. LeFarge photo, Mark Andersen collection]. 2nd, another view of the Upper Yard at Marquette. [Robert Platt photo-UWML] 3rd and 4th images the new and old roundhouses here in 1917. From Sanborn insurance maps.

Time Line

1868. The M&O shops were rebuilt (following a fire downtown) at Fifth Street, made of sandstone with iron roofs. They included a new 9-stall roundhouse, a 52'x113' machine shop, a foundry and forge, carpenter shop. [DSS]

1913. The DSS&A will build a new roundhouse at Marquette at a cost of $50,000. Another large roundhouse will be constructed by the company at Thomaston, MI. [DFP-1913-0307]