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Railroad: Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad Company
Bay de Noquet & Marquette Railroad → Marquette & Ontonagon Railroad → Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway
Bought: Bay de Noquet & Marquette Railroad in 1871
Operated for 15 years.
Acquired: 1872 - Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon.
Acquired: 1879 - Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette railroad
Became: 1886 - Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway
Reference: [MRRC]
Notes
Time Line
1863. Received former M&O Railway land grant from state legislature. [DSS]
1865. Construction began west from Lake Superior mine towards Ontonagon, from a point 2 miles north of Winthrop at a location known as Ontonagon Junction. This was a connection with the BdN&M. Mining interests south of Lake Michigamme motivated the M&O to build south of the lake. The line was completed approximately to Champion. [DSS]
1871. August. The BdN&M is consolidated into the M&O through a stock exchange. [DSS]
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