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Railroad: Marquette County Gas Light and Traction Company (E)
Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Ry. → Marquette County Gas Light & Traction → Marquette Co. Gas & Electric
Bought: 1904 - from the Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Railway and Electric Company
Conveyed: 1906 - to the Marquette County Gas & Electric.
Reference: [MRRC]
Started in 1893, this was at first a summer-only operation. Within a couple of years, it was operating year around. For 14 years, it used single-truck cars. The company reorganized into the Marquette Consolidated Gas Light & Traction Co.
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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