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We took a vacation to the U.P., that's the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, not the Union Pacific railroad. The last time I was in the Keweenaw peninsula was over 25 years ago.
An interesting surprise along the way was seeing sand hoppers and some gondolas |
You know you are getting somewhere when you cross the big (and only) bridge over Portage Lake.
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| There are many trails from the old railroads. |
| I guess this is the Mineral Range RR / now trail / bridge, near Lake Linden; I didn't look it up yet. |
I did some kite aerial photography of the Queen coming to the dock at Copper Harbor.
There's a wooden ore boat on shore, and a real one on the Lake in the distance.
| I conisder myself to be lucky to see 3 ore boats in one hour one morning. In fact 2 actually were passing within minutes of this scene from Copper Harbor. |
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The Queen leaving in the morning on their trip to Isle Royale National Park I am on the dock holding the kite string. |
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We went to Brockway Mountain, 600 ft above Lake Superior. The first thing visitors did was check their cell phones. The nearest cell tower is 10 miles away and that signal doesn't get down to lake level in Copper Harbor. It was funny watching tourists walking around town holding up their phones, like some lost Star Trek people searching for a signal. A foundation was poured for a cell tower on Brockway, so it shouldn't be long before the town gets service. They have hundreds of tourists, but the winter population is 92. One storekeeper 'goes south for the winter', which was Calumet 40 miles away. There were dozens of UTV's and a few little ATV's. They go down the gravel trails, pop out onto the highway for a while and then back onto the trails. |
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There's a saying on the post cards, the UP . . it's not the end of the earth, but you can see it from here. |
| Mining equipment on display in Houghton |
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Those white streaks in the picture isn't snow, it's big rain drops. But just wait. Calumet and Hecla display in Calumet. |
| Sunset Cove |
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Books collected along the way.
. . . ' Rock Down Coal Up ' |
These links still work for Copper Country information.
Copper Range RR organization
Nathan's aerial pictures of the Keweenaw , try the KAP Gallery tab.
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This page was wrote in August, 2016
