Railroad: Manistique and Northwestern Railway Company, The

This was a logging railroad which was built from Manistique on the shore of Lake Michigan, north into the forests to a connection with the DSS&A at Shingleton. The line was soon sold to a successor railroad.


Built → Manistique & Northwestern Railway → Manistique, Marquette & Northern


Built: 1898 - Manistique to Shingleton.

Operated for 4 years.

Sold: 1902 - to Manistique, Marquette & Northern.

Reference: [MRRC]


Notes


Time Line

1896. The Escanaba Daily Press notes that in 196, the C-L Co. railway was taken over by the Ann Arbor railroad. [EDP-1956-0512] Ed. Note: This is likely the Chicago Lumbering Co.

1902. Sold to the Manistique, Marquette & Northern.

 

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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