Mineral Range 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA

Class Otetiani (Locobase 11773)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 10, p. 44. .

Works number was 5219 in August 1880.

Increasingly isolated in a standard-gauge world, this little Mogul left the MR in 1895 and went to the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. But the DSS & A converted to standard-gauge in 1901 and the 4 moved on to the Cadillac Handle Company in Cadillac, Mich. The CHC produced wood handles - as many as 125,000 broom handles in a given day.

Class Red Jacket (Locobase 11622)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Vol 18, p. 1. See also John A Hall, "In the Northern Peninsula of Michigan," Locomotive Engineering, Volume 8, Number 2 (February 1895), pp. 67-71. Works number was 12677 in May 1892.

This was a pretty sizable Mogul for the 3-foot gauge for a start-up road in Michigan's Copper Country. The area included the Keweenaw Peninsula , wihch extends well into Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula north of Wisconsin. Exploitation of the area's extensive reserves prompted a great deal of railroad construction, then mostly narrow gauge, when the quality of its copper ore became well-established. Officially known as the Mineral Range & L'Anse Bay Railroad, one of the most important lines originally extended only the 13 miles between Calumet and Osceola.

Sold in 1901 to the Hancock & Calumet as their #40 when the MR was converted to the standard gauge. The H & C sold #40 two years later to the Missouri Southern, which renumbered it again as 6.