Railroad: Manistee Railway Co. (E)

Manistee Light & Traction → Manistee Railway Company → Ceased Operation

Acquired: 1912 - Manistee Light & Traction

Operated for 8 years.

Merged: 1921 - Operations Ended

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

Fourteen miles were laid in 1892 connecting Eastlake with Filer City via Manistee, with a branch from Peanut Junction to Orchard Beach on Lake Michigan. The lines has seventeen  passing sidings.

The company supplied its own power and the car house was well-equipped with blacksmith, carpenter, machine and paint shops and a transfer table for shifting cars between shop and barn sections.

Time Line

1917. July 4. The railway suffered one of the most spectacular street car-train wrecks when three of its cars were hit by a Manistee & Northeastern (steam) railroad train. There were two deaths and a few serious injuries.

1921. The railway applied for abandonment which was granted over the objections of the city.