Railroad: Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad Company

Built → Saginaw Tuscola & Huron Railroad → Pere Marquette railroad

Built: 1882 - Saginaw to Sebewaing. 1886 Saginaw to Bad Axe.

Operated for 21 years.

Control: 1900 - by Pere Marquette. Also leased by them in 1900.

Sold: 1903 - to Pere Marquette.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

3' gauge until 1891, then standard gauge.

Time Line

1881. The Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron railroad directors have voted to purchase three additional locomotives, four passenger coaches and 50 freight cars. 425 tons of iron have arrived for the road. Grading is progressing rapidly. Th surveys of the road are to be extended to Port Austin and Bad Axe immediately. Tenders are asked for the swing bridge across the Sebewaing river. [PHTH-1881-0727]

1894. Sanford Keeler, for many years superintendent of the F&PM railroad and subsequently superintendent of the Huron Bay & Iron Range road [in the upper peninsula] has been appointed general manager of the Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron railroad, and will assume his new duties tomorrow. [DFP-1894-0912]

1900. The purchase of the Saginaw, Tuscola and Huron Railroad by the Pere Marquette includes the Bayport Hotel and summer resort grounds and the stone office building in Port Huron. The Bayport stone quarries and Heisterman Island, near there, do not go in the deal. [CCA-1900-0118]