DSP&P Locomotives Later in Life

[Daniel Frauenhoff]

Located on the University of Michigan Library's Digital Collections are two photographs showing ex DSP&P locomotives #55 & 57 in service on the Manistee & Luther Railroad Company. Fortunately for us the archivists did their research as the captions indicate the numbers the DSP&P and C&S used, apparently copied from Poor's book.

According to michiganrailroads.com: "The Manistee & Luther railroad was built in 1886 and used as a logging road for the R. G. Peters Salt  Lumber Co. It was built between Eastlake (on Manistee Lake) to the vicinity of Luther. The road had a number of branches into the forest. These lines were removed by 1915."

Poor states that these locomotives were sold prior to 1902.


Former DSP&P 55 still sports C&S #34 in this c. 1901 view on the Manistee & Luther Railroad. Renumbered M&L #4 shortly after.



Former DSP&P #57 (C&S # 36) on the Manistee & Luther Railroad c. 1900. Later renumbered M&L #3.

University of Michigan Digital Collections:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=ic_all&q1=denver&med=1&fn21=bhl_su&fq21=Railroad+locomotives--Michigan&type=boolean&c=bhl&type=boolean&view=reslist

michiganrailroads.com:
https://www.michiganrailroads.com/railroads-in-history/464-m/3812-manistee-luther-railroad-company-the#:~:text=Railroad%3A%20Manistee%20%26%20Luther%20Railroad%20Company,of%20branches%20into%20the%20forest.

[Kurt Maechner]

Thanks for tracking this down!  I find it fascinating to see where some of the locomotives ended up.