Railroad: Gogebic & Iron Counties Railway & Light Company (E)


Gogebic Street Railway. → Gogebic & Iron Counties Railway & LightIronwood & Bessemer Railway. & Light


Acquired: 1910

Operated for 1 year.

Became: 1911 - Ironwood & Bessemer Railway & Light Co.

Closed: 1932

Reference: [MRRC]


Notes

This was an electric railroad which extended from Montreal and Hurley in Wisconsin east to Ironwood, Bessemer and Jessieville, MI, a total of about 12 miles. The line was ultimately abandoned under different ownership in 1932.

This interurban and street railway ran about 26 trains per day in each direction at its peak. The railway had similar three-track barns in Ironwood and Bessemer. [ERM]


Time Line

1912. September. Representatives of the Gogebic and Iron Counties Railway and Light Company appeared before the state railroad commission at Lansing and asked them to compel the C&NW and Soo Line railroads to permit them to run tracks across their lines on this range. The electric company claims that the other railroads are tying them up and delaying their project of connecting the electric line between Bessemer and Ironwood. [BHN-1912-0914]

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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