I have been searching for information on the half scale and small scale railroads used in the Cadillac area that were used to extract logs from the forests in the early years.

Yeah I know. Went to Lumber Inspection School 1971 there

My family owned part of Ford farm. Old rail grades every where, from Pequamming mill. Pictures of Gramps, woods just leveled behind him. Fence lines miles deep in woods, abandonded wells all over. Farming and workers shacks all over, equipment trees growing through them. Was a big community on Ford farm road, L'Anse. Nephew owns the 80 acres now. Gotta be over 300 acres total just the fields. Can see main house still standing, (privately owned) huge house. Father made a sawmill out of blade we found in an equipment shack, we used and restored some of the equipment planters, hay rakes, horse drawn hay cutter etc...

Thanks for this Mike-I was so pleased to see Saint Kateris Church-it was St. Joseph's while in Pequaming and renamed St. Catherines in honor of the man's wife who purchased the Church for Zeba. Look for it at 3:53. It is now closed down and the ownership is at question.

Does everyone have the original tape of Sacred heart church fire. It would be nice to see it.

What a lovely little town ❤️

amazing

It’s idyllic, that’s for sure. Is it practical? How long would it take an ambulance to get to your home in the case of an emergency. It’s fascinating to observe and maybe to visit for a while, but how realistic is it to live there. It really does exude peace and safety, however. I think that it would be rather barren and would require a stone like mental constitution to survive. Having said that, though, it is kind of alluring in a romantic sort of way.

Such a beautiful place. Almost heaven to most

My great grandfather built gliders @ Brunswick in Muskegon! Who came first, Henry Ford or Albert Kahn?

Ford should have to pay ALL the restoration of Michigan rivers and bring back the Grayling

Back when Men were Men, Now they are Pansexuals with buns in their hair ear rings wearing women's thongs and don't even know how to change a tire.

You don't sell cheap vehicles for nothing, they're always a cost to be paid, are the places pristine like they once were. Nature always pays the price, now we feel the repercussions of unsound rich decisions with zero accountability. All of our lakes & rivers run foul, any life is unfit for consumption without server consequences . I feel like the TV fake Native, standing next to the Hwy., when some dirtbag throws their petroleum laced toxic fast-food garbage at his feet. All I can say is rich ignorant tree monkey's & you said you were smart, but words are always cheap & meaningless in the end.

Too bad timber operations today don’t use the waste as efficiently.

Real men doing real work! This was back when men were real men. I only saw about 500 OSHA violations.

I was born in Alberta, Nov 1946

Henry had some interesting politics back in the thirties maybe do a show on that.He hated everyone that worked for him and built tanks and trucks in Germany for Hitler he even won a supreme court case and the U.S.had to pay for the plant we bombed in Germany he owned during the war.He was a evil man maybe you should find a new hero.

Ah yes, the reason why there is no old growth in the Upper Peninsula.

Henry ford saw opportunities every where he went!

so many specia purpose machines running about! Be nice to see if any are in museums!

3:06 has one of those ice-way wagons survived anywhere?

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Ford endorsed Nazi Germany...A traitor.

Alberta

All these guys long gone

Wow !!! History of logging, milling and mining . Those loggers can load those logs tight !! The Sawyer in that mill knows his business with his steam niger and steam shotgun fed carriage. I've never seen that type of mining before. Great video

That's a pretty nice mill for back in the early years... The Sawyer was fast with his steam niger and carriage and giving the setter on the carriage sets by showing fingers... Nice fast mill back in the day.

This illustrates the basic difference between capitalism and communism. In capitalism the men are provided with the tools to maximize their output, decent dormitories and adequate, quality food. During the exact same time these scenes were being shot men who weren't shot were sentenced to slave labor in a camp in the Gulag system, provided only the most rudimentary of tools and often worked to death to accomplish the same output of raw materials. The workers in a capitalist system may not have been highly paid but they had better food, tools and living conditions compared to many in the Workers Paradise. Does someone have a reference to compare the cost on a per board foot basis what this lumber cost Ford to Gulag produced lumber? The Gulags were surely horribly inefficient but did the slave labor and low overhead result in cheaper lumber?

Way cool! Boy, back in the day...unreal how technology changes so drastically in decades!

This is outstanding! Thank you!

I was here one time back in 1981, I need to go back at least one more time.

Gaitley's Dept. Store in 1972 or so Anybody ??? it Burned and it Was Calumet as I Recall....

We used to go dancing there on the weekends, when I was stationed at the radar site.

Be careful with gentrification.

Ahh good old Charles Briggs school (at 3:50) I went there K-5 lived 2 blocks east last street in town had all the woods a kid could want to build forts wreck hornets nests hunt etc. played road hockey all the time skated at Laurium ice rink snowmobiled sledded down big hill rode bikes played baseball kickball had lots of candy stores a perfect place for a young Finnlander to spend his childhood

A bit like that other place in Michigan, but smaller, and less homicide.

Traveling to the UP is on my bucket list☺

Keweenaw looks like it would be pronounced Kuh-wee-naw, but I notice that locals pronounce it Key-wih-naw. Wonder how this came about?

Hello Lauriam, Up until this moment, I never heard of you. I live in Boston and want to visit here. Great town

The snow is a nice touch. The UP in July is always full of surprise!

Two Yoopers walked out a bar.------- No really it could happen

Being here is nice

Thanks for sharing!

Beautiful, Mike. Gread vid.

Sweet, but too short. I need to see about an hour more of this town. Would live there in a minute.

Any inside rock or mineral hunting tips from this area?

Sure looks peaceful under the snow. I've been to Marquette, but not to Houghton and points north. I'll have to check this town out the next time around.

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Outstanding! Thank you~!