- Details
- Hits: 2560
Railroad: Marquette County Electric Railway Company (E)
Marquette Co. Gas & Electric → Marquette County Electric Railway → Operations Ended
Bought: 1917 - purchased street railway from Marquette County Gas & Electric
Operated for 10 years.
Operations Ended: 1927
Reference: [MRRC]
Notes
The best years of this operation were from 1910 to 1913. Success depended on hauling baseball fans and picnickers to Union and Cleveland parks.
For 14 years, it used single-truck cars. The company reorganized into the Marquette Consolidated Gas Light & Traction Co.
The railroad's power house and adjacent car barn was located along Bluff Street in west Negaunee, near the current location of Negaunee High School.
Time Line
1893. The operation started as a summer-only operation. Within a couple of years, it was operating year around.
1907. Three double-trucked cars were substituted. Under the weight of these heavy cars, 40-lb. rail was replaced by 60-lb. rail in 1911.
1927. August 20. The last run was made.
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