Station: Pentoga, MI

Pentoga was settled in 1896 in south Iron County on the C&NW line between Florence Wisconsin and Iron River. A saw mill was built here. The village was begun in 1900. This is now a ghost town. [MPN]

Photo Info: The C&NW depot at Pentoga, in southern Iron County near the Wisconsin border. [Alan Loftis collection]

Notes

Time Line

1895. October. A Landslide Causes Another Wreck on the North-Western Road. A westbound freight train on the Chicago & North-Western, was wrecked by a landslide at Jumbo Siding, eight miles west of Stager Junction [near Pengoda]. The engine and four freight cars went over the embankment and landed in the Brule river, a distance of one hundred feet from the track. Engineer Hall and Fireman Morgan went down with the engine, but miraculously escaped without a scratch, and are none the worse for their involuntary bath. Several other cars were derailed and the track badly torn up, but the damage was soon repaired by the wrecking crew, which reached the scene the same night. The engine and cars were fished out of the river several days later in a badly demoralized condition. The landslide was caused by heavy rains. Had it occurred half an hour sooner the evening passenger train would have gone down the embankment and many lives would have been lost. The same evening a tail-end collision occurred near Sturgeon. The caboose was smashed to splinters and an engine and several ore cars thrown into the ditch. No one hurt. [RTR]

1918. The C&NW had an agent here on the day shift and telegraph operators here on the 1st and 2nd shifts. [TRT]

1931. The MPUC allows the C&NW to discontinue its station at Pentoga as an agency station, and to continue the station as non-agency in charge of a caretaker. [MPUC-1931]