White Pine Copper Refinery's SW1 does some light switching in the small yard. The future was uncertain at this point and the plant shut down a year later.
White Pine Copper Refinery's SW1 goes about its switching on a fine summer morning. The end was near for this small operation as the plant closure was in late 2010.
A couple of plant critters get some sun. Please feel free to comment with any information on these locomotives, I do not have much on them.
With the closing of the White Pine Copper Refinery, this little railroad is on borrowed time...
The White Pine Copper Refinery switcher works the yard at White Pine.
The local has spun their engine and tacked onto their nine cars for the return trip to North Bessemer where they'll call it a day.
White Pine Copper Refinery's unit 1371 at CN's small yard in White Pine MI.
White Pine Copper #200 was just a few years earlier Copper Range Railroad #200 - this engine lasted into the 90s