The forty-mile Copper Range Railroad, a subsidiary of the Copper Range Company joining Houghton with Range Junction on the St. Paul, was the last major railroad built in the Copper Country of Upper Michigan. This company developed a large rail yard, depot complex and a roundhouse west of the Houghton-Hancock Bridge in the early 1900s and operated active passenger as well as freight services through the 1940s. Located next to a half mile of deep water dock frontage and adjacent to what is today called the Huron Creek Waterfront Park, the 15-bay roundhouse was one of the best in the UP. It was demolished in the mid-1970s.

For over a half century, the Copper Range roundhouse stood as the dominant feature on the Houghton waterfront.

Developing the Huron Creek Watershed Management Plan