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=Enginehouse | 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

1900. The Mohawk Mining Company will extend its standard gauge line now running from Traverse Bay, Lake Superior (Gay) to the mine in Keweenaw county. [DFP-1900-0105]

1904. May 20. A loaded ore train headed towards Gay is involved in a head-on collision with a westbound engine and box car, in a curve near Gay, killing the engineer of the ore train. He was caught between the locomotive and tender while trying to jump. [DSSS-2022-Q1]

1909. November 8. A special train over the Mineral Range railroad containing Alexander Agassiz, president of the C&H Mineral company and General Manager MacNaughton went to Gay this morning. [CN-1909-1108]

1912. A new twice-daily passenger train from Lake Linden to and from Gay was initiated. This train continued until the COPR took over operations on this branch. [SOO-2022-Q1]

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