Michigan Logging Railroads 2019-10-05.kmz

Michigan Logging Railroads

C H Hackley

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Ryerson Hills & Getty Co
shown on 1880 plat map

Osterhout Fox & Co
shown on 1880 plat map

Unk SW Woodville
shown on topo map as old rr grade

Michelson & Hanson Lbr
shown on 1901 plat maps

Cummer & Son

Unk Lewiston NE

Unk logging spurs off MC Lewiston Branch

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shown on 1901 plat map
timber at north end owned by Kneeland & Bigelow Co

Unk logging spurs off Solling-Johannesburg Br

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possibly Mich Central branch

Unk Frederic East

Unk spurs off Mich Central

W H White Co

David E Ward

Antrim Iron Co logging railroad

Roscommon Lbr?

Unk off Manistee & NE

Grass Lake & Manistee River Ry

unk

Crawford & Manistee River Ry

Portage Lake & Muskegon River RR

Unk Houghton Lake SW

J H Moores

J. H. Moores

J. H. Moores estimated

Potts Lbr later Loud Lbr

Unk South Branch NW

Alger Smith & Co

Cummer Lbr
railroad called "Cadillac & Northeastern"

Cummer Lumber Co (Cadillac & Northeastern RR)

possibly Cobbs & Mitchell

Cummer Lumber Co
First Cummer railroad operated 1881-1884

Cummer Lumber Co

Mitchell Bros
36" gauge

Kalkaska Co near Rowley

Mitchell Bros Co

Mitchell Bros Lumber Co

Cummer & Diggins

Cummer & Diggins
older mainline

Hackley & Hume "Long Lake & Muskegon River RR"

R G Peters Eastlake MI
36" gauge
railroad called "Manistee & Luther RR"

could this be Hobart & Manistee River RR?

possibly GR&I or Hobart & Manistee River

Peters Timber

Untitled Polygon

Wisconsin Land & Lbr

West Branch RR

Unk Ogemaw Spr W

Unk Lake Co

Unk Lake Co S Luther

Mason & Oceana RR

Logging spurs

Unk NE Midland Co

Hobart & Manistee River RR
owned by John Canfield
1879-1890
36" gauge

possibly H&MR

possible route

Lake County RR

Upper Peninsula

Unk off C&NW Beaver Branch

Unk Delta Co

Chicago Lumber Co

Greenwood Lbr

Unk Chapman N

Unk off C&NW Whitefish Branch

Unk Cooks N

Unk Manistique NW

Unk Walsh N

Unk Seney N

Unk Curson N

Unk Milakokia Lake N

Unk Huntspur S

Unk Gould City N

Unk McMillan SE

Unk Naubinway N

Charcoal Iron Co

South Shore Cedar Co

Unk Shelldrake W

Unk Danaher N

Buckley & Douglas

Cobbs & Mitchell

Round Lake

Crofton

Cadillac

Cobbs & Mitchell
location estimated

West Michigan Lbr Co
Shown on 1880 property map
could be Jacob Beidler & Bro Lbr or Geo B Warren

Diamond Lake

West Michigan Lumber Co

North Branch & Sauble River RR
controlled by Danaher & Melendy

Built by North Branch & Sauble River RR 8-1888 as 36" gauge

Dunham Peters & Co

Paris & Pere Marquette RR
owned by Palmer Nichols & Co

Built by Paris & Pere Marquette RR 1882 as 36" gauge
owned by Palmer Nichols & Co
abandoned 1889
route very approximate Paris to county line

Boyne Falls & Northeastern RR

Clam River RR
owned by D A Blodgett
built 1881
still listed in 1888 NW Lumberman

D. A. Blodgett (Clam River RR)

Muskrat Lake & Clam River RR
owned by Cody & Moore

J S Stearns

Unk Lake Co at Branch
possibly Charon & Bourgette
36" ga built 1881

Chickering & Kysor

Chippewa Lbr Co
Built 1883

Wyman & Buswell
Shown on 1880 plat

Wyman & Buswell
shown on 1880 plat

MB Farrin
Built 1884

Gratwick Smith & Fryer Lbr
called Crapo Lake & Northwestern RR
standard gauge
built 1882

Unk Alcona Co at Harrisville
possibly Platt & Miller
built 1880

Gebhart & Estabrook

Hermansville & Western RR
owned by Chas. J. L. Meyer
standard gauge
dumps at mill of Wisconsin Land & Lumber

Hopkins Manufacturing Co
"Bear Lake & Eastern RR"

Lake George & Muskegon River RR
owned by Winfield Scott Gerrish
1877-1882
sold to C. H. Hackley & Co (Hackley & Hume) 1-2-1882
gone by 1887?
r-of-w to Toledo Ann Arbor & Cadillac RR

Lake George & Muskegon River RR

Jackson & Tindle

Lake Thomas & Tittabawassee RR

Meredith MI to Youngstown
logging branch of F&PM?

Thayer Lbr Co

Thayer Lumber Co

Louis Sands Salt & Lumber Co

Murphy & Diggins

Smith Lbr Co & Torrent's RR

Thayer Lumber Co. "West Branch RR"

Wells Stone & Co

Wells, Stone & Co

Roscommon Lumber Co (Houghton Lake & Barker City RR)

George Woods