Timetable: Gay Branch - Mohawk to Gay

This is the former Mohawk & Traverse Bay Railway which was operated under lease by the Mineral Range railroad until 1917 and then by the Copper Range railroad from 1917 until the line was abandoned. 

Key: C=Coal | D=Open during Day | DN=Open Day and night | EH=Engine house | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = [MRL] + other sources

Notes

Time Line

1917. Operation of this branch line is taken over by the Copper Range railroad through a lease with the Mohawk Mining Company.

1934. The Boniface-Gorman Lumber Company resumes operations at Gay and by year's end had shipped 118 carloads of pulpwood to locations in Wisconsin. [CRR]

1962. June. The MPSC blocks a petition by the Copper Range Railroad to abandon their branch from Calumet Junction to Gay, saying the line might prove invaluable if the Defense Department decided to build a missile launching site on the peninsula. The town of Gay, with a population of about 100, is wholly dependent on the Dion Lumber Co. for livelihood. The decision is postponed six months. [IDG-1962-0625]

1964. June 30. The ICC authorizes abandonment of 33% of the Copper Range railroad system, including  Mohawk to Gay, and discontinuance of operation of the leased Keweenaw Central from Nichols to Fulton. [CRR]

1964. The line is abandoned. [MRL]