"LS&I Marquette"
For over 3-1/2 decades this 1948 Fairmont M19F motorcar has called the Mast home, it's home - that changed yesterday. It was manufactured by Fairmont Railway Motors in March 1948 and sold to the Virginian Railway. It was delivered in a C&NW boxcar to Page, West Virginia, fast forward 37 years to when I purchased it for scrap price from the Norfolk & Western Railroad out of their maintenance yard in Bellevue, Ohio. Now 37 years later - it has left our home for a new one not far from Page, West Virginia. Out of the hundreds of images I took of her all over the country, this is one of my favorites on the Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore dock in Marquette, Michigan under the old steam era water tank in August of 1994. So long old friend, we shared a ton of miles and great times and now I am happy you finally went home.
"LS&I Marquette"
For over 3-1/2 decades this 1948 Fairmont M19F motorcar has called the Mast home, it's home - that changed yesterday. It was manufactured by Fairmont Railway Motors in March 1948 and sold to the Virginian Railway. It was delivered in a C&NW boxcar to Page, West Virginia, fast forward 37 years to when I purchased it for scrap price from the Norfolk & Western Railroad out of their maintenance yard in Bellevue, Ohio. Now 37 years later - it has left our home for a new one not far from Page, West Virginia. Out of the hundreds of images I took of her all over the country, this is one of my favorites on the Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore dock in Marquette, Michigan under the old steam era water tank in August of 1994. So long old friend, we shared a ton of miles and great times and now I am happy you finally went home.