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Railroad: Northern Michigan Traction Company (E)
Manistee Filer City & East Lake → Northern Michigan Traction Co. → Manistee Light &Traction
Acquired: 1905 - Manistee, Filer City & East Lake.
Operated for 2 years.
Merged: 1907 - into Manistee Light & Traction.
Reference: [MRRC]
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 wit blacksmith, carpenter, machine and paint shops and a transfer table for shifting cars between shop and barn sections.
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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