Location: Marquette, MI - M&O Facilities

In its early days, the Marquette & Ontonagon railroad had a fairly complete shop facility at Front and Main streets, including blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, pattern room, gas house, tank house and offices.

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Time Line

1868. June 11. The shop facilities of the M&O at Marquette are destroyed by fire. The fire crossed the street and largely destroyed the business district in Marquette. The M&O railroad dock, Lake Superior dock and Jackson dock were also destroyed. The last 200 feet of the M&O dock survived. Only the Cleveland dock at Superior Street survived intact. [DSS]

1868. The shops were rebuilt 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]