Location: Vanderbilt, MI - Yuill Brothers Railroad

The Yuill Brothers had extensive logging operations north and east of Gaylord. To reach these holdings, they built the Yuill Brothers Railroad which ran east off the Michigan Central Mackinaw Division at Rogers (Logan), six miles north of Gaylord and two miles south of Vanderbilt. [ITP4]

Notes

Yuill Brothers had a close relationship with W.D. Young & Company and Yuill was a major supplier of logs for Young's Bay City mill, via the MC Mackinaw Branch. [ITP1]

Their two logging railroads likely interconnected in the woods. (See Cheboygan County - Trowbridge station for information on the Young railroad).

Time Line

1906. The Yuill Brothers operated a logging road, which was standard gauge.

1910. The Yuill Brothers logging road was 10 miles, standard gauge with 35 and 60 lb. rail. Their headquarters has a d.c. electric plant, 200 incandescent lamps, 6 miles of telephone line with 3 instruments, and a machine shop with two electric motors. [ALM-1910]

1912. The railroad had expanded to 12 miles of track.