Bill and/or Matt,
You being Yoopers, I may have asked before, and might again, but do either of you have a version of a Con Culhane story? I'm trying hard to piece it together better.This Michigan legendary RR logger's story is dying off too fast. He moved his whole logging and RR operation from Culhane Lake (East of the Marquette penn. along Superiors shore), and did it in the WINTER, over the frozen cedar swamp to Shelldrake, near Paradise and Taq. Falls..All by lifting the rails behind him and re-setting them up front. You had to fight him to be hired on. If you would fight for a job, you'd likely work for it too 
My present goal is to find out what Mfg. and type of engine the "Ellen K" was, but any story would be fine. His wife (Ellen) bought the engine when the C&H mine canceled a loco order with the loco en route.(1894-1896?) A "planned scenario", they had trouble getting a dock to let them unload (politics/unions) and so did the unload on a beach (Whitehouse Landing, or the sand bar/shallow cove, north of Culhane Lake(?). He died 1903 falling under his own train....and I have to quit writing and update the laptop, can hardly type it's so bad.....
I'd appreciate any info. Ask the oldest local RR fan you know...please 
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EDIT: White landing is White House landing.
