ELS 1223 stops to pick up a switch list at the Ontonagon, MI depot in July of 2000. Unfortunately, this line is no longer in service and the tracks are gone.

ELS crosses US Hwy 45 between Rockland and Ontonagon, MI in July of 2000. The main source of revenue on this line was a large mill in Ontonagon. The mill has since closed and the line ripped up.

ELS 1223 has just arrived at Ontonagon, MI in July of 2000. Soon it will be switching the large paper mill in town. Unfortunately, the mill closed and much of this line has been torn up.

The Escanaba & Lake Superior has shut down for the day, and the crew has left their ex-Conrail GP38 by the freight house in Ontonagon, Michigan. Ontonagon, on Lake Superior, is the end of an ex-Mi... (more)

Due to the idling of the Ontonagon Smurfit-Stone mill and ongoing friction between the company and the railroad, the removal of the boxcars from the west side of the river on November 21, 2009 cou... (more)

Escanaba and Lake Superior 501 is southbound out of Ontonagon on former Milwaukee Road rails.

Escanaba and Lake Superior GP38 400 leads its train across the Ontonagon River bridge at Ontonagon.

E&LS 501 begins to switch cars at the paper plant in Ontonagon as fog drifts in from nearby Lake Superior.