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Lake Superior & Ishpeming #32, sits at the Presque Isle roundhouse.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR No. 32 was a class SC-1 Consolidation type 2-8-0 steam locomotive built in 1916 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad.

The locomotive was built to haul heavy freight trains on the south shore of Lake Superior until it was retired from service in 1959. It was sold to the Marquette & Huron Mountain tourist railroad in 1963 along with the other two 1916-built Consolidations (#35 & 34).

In the 1960s, the locomotive was acquired by the Department of Defense and was expended as a target for weapons systems tests on Range C-2A at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, in the late 1960s. It was fitted with a remote control system for the live tests.

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