Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies

6. County Listing of Companies

COUNTY LISTINGS OF COMPANIES This chapter lists, for each county in Michigan, those companies that operated a railroad line (shown in capital letters) and those that proposed to operate (shown in lower-case letters). The names used in this section are not the full legal names but are sufficient to locate the company in chapter 2. The articles of incorporation of some pre-1900 companies described their purpose by naming the thenexisting counties in which the company would operate. A few of these counties have been renamed or combined . Some counties, particularly in the Upper Peninsula, were organized after the company's incorporation . This listing describes the corporate intentions based on the present structure of 83 counties. At the end of the county listings are three groups of railroad companies which did not fit into the major listing : 1. companies which did not operate a rail line and also did not specify counties of operation in the corporate articles, and companies which did operate but the county in which they operated can not now be determined ; 2. reorganizing companies which were created to convey a property from one company to another and did not operate the property in its name during ownership ; and 3. holding companies which owned incorporated railroad companies, but operated them in the name of the held company and not in the name of the holding company. ALCONA COUNTY (001) ALGER & CO. ALGER, SMITH & CO. Alpena & Michigan South-western Alpena & South Western Amboy & Traverse Bay Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Bay AU SABLE & NORTHWESTERN BAY CITY & ALPENA [J. R.] BEARD & CO. BLACK RIVER DETROIT & MACKINAC DETROIT, BAY CITY & ALPENA FLETCHER, PACK & CO. HARRIS BROS. Killmaster Lake Huron & Western MUDGETT, D. B. NEVIN, D[AVID] PLATT & MILLER POTTS LOGGING RY CO. 267 ALGER COUNTY (002) BURT & GAMBLE LUMBER CO. CLEVELAND CLIFFS IRON CO. DETROIT, MACKINAC & MARQUETTE DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC LAKE SUPERIOR & ISHPEMING Mackinaw & Lake Superior MANISTIQUE MANISTIQUE & LAKE SUPERIOR MANISTIQUE & NORTHERN MANISTIQUE & NORTHWESTERN MANISTIQUE LUMBERING CO. MANISTIQUE, MARQUETTE & NORTHERN MARQUETTE & SOUTHEASTERN Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie & Mackinac MUNISING MUNISING, MARQUETTE & SOUTHEASTERN NAHMA & NORTHERN NORTHWESTERN COOPERAGE & LUMBER CO. Ohio & Lake Superior ONOTA CHARCOAL CO. St. Mary's & Minneapolis Sault Ste. Marie & Southwestern SOO LINE TYOGA LUMBER CO. WILKIE, WISCONSIN CENTRAL, LTD. WISCONSIN LAND & LUMBER CO. WORCESTER, C. H., CO. ALLEGAN COUNTY (003) Allegan & Holland ALLEGAN & LAKE SHORE Allegan & Marshall ALLEGAN & SOUTH EASTERN Benton Harbor Electric Ry & Transit Central Michigan RR CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Chicago & Michigan Grand Trunk CHICAGO & MICHIGAN LAKE SHORE CHICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN CINCINNATI, JACKSON & MACKINAW RR CINCINNATI, JACKSON & MACKINAW RY CINCINNATI NORTHERN Columbus & Lake Michigan Columbus, Lima & Milwaukee ALLEGAN COUNTY CONSOLIDATED RAIL DETROIT, TOLEDO & MILWAUKEE DEWING, W. G. & SONS LUMBER CO. GRAND HAVEN Grand Rapids & Chicago RR Grand Rapids & Chicago Ry GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo Electric Grand Rapids & Kalamazoo Valley Grand Rapids & Southern Grand Rapids, Chicago & St. Louis Grand Rapids Electric GRAND RAPIDS, HOLLAND & CHICAGO GRAND RAPIDS, HOLLAND & LAKE MICHIGAN Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo & South Haven KALAMAZOO, ALLEGAN & GRAND RAPIDS Kalamazoo & Allegan Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids Kalamazoo & Grand River Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago Traction Kalamazoo River KELLOGG AND SAWYER (LUMBER CO.) LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN Lake Shore RR of Western Michigan Lansing & Lake Michigan Mackinac & Chicago MANSFIELD, COLDWATER & LAKE MICHIGAN MICHIGAN & CHICAGO Michigan & Chicago Westbound MICHIGAN & OHIO RR MICHIGAN CENTRAL MICHIGAN LAKE SHORE Michigan Light & Traction Michigan Northern RR (1869) MICHIGANRR MICHIGANRY Michigan Shore & Eastern Michigan West Shore Traction NEW YORK CENTRAL Ohio & Grand Haven Ohio & Michigan Ohio, Quincy & Grand Haven PENN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA PERE MARQUETTE Saugatuck & South Haven SAUGATUCK, DOUGLAS & LAKE SHORE Southern Michigan Traction South Haven & Lake Shore Southwestern Michigan Toledo & Milwaukee Ry Trans-Michigan Street West Michigan Traction Co. 268 ALPENA COUNTY (004) ALPENA & HUBBARD LAKE ALPENA & LONG LAKE Alpena & Michigan South-western ALPENA & NORTHERN Alpena & South Western Alpena & Western Alpena, Gaylord & Western ALPENA PORTLAND CEMENT CO. Amboy & Traverse Bay Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Bay [JAMES] BAIRD & CO. BAY CITY & ALPENA BEWICKE, COMSTOCK & CO. BOYNE CITY, GAYLORD & ALPENA BROADWELL, HILLIARD CAMPBELL, E. P., & CO. CORLIES & THUNDER BAY TRAIN DETROIT & MACKINAC DETROIT, BAY CITY & ALPENA FLETCHER, PACK & CO. GILCHRIST, F. W. Grand Rapids, Grayling & Alpena Grand Rapids, Greenville & Alpena HURON PORTLAND CEMENT CO. KENNEDY, D. A. Michigan Northern Ry (1873) POTTER, W. H. & E. K. ANTRIM COUNTY (005) Alpena & Western Alpena, Gaylord & Western Amboy & Traverse Bay Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Bay BOYNE CITY & SOUTHEASTERN BOYNE CITY, GAYLORD & ALPENA CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CHICAGO & NORTH MICHIGAN CHICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN Cincinnati & Great Northern COLD SPRINGS DETROIT & CHARLEVOIX Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba EAST JORDAN & SOUTHERN EAST JORDAN LUMBER CO. Elk Rapids, Williamsburg & Southern Elk Short Line GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANA Grand Rapids & Mackinaw Grand Rapids & Northern Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & Southeastern Grand Rapids, Traverse Bay & Mackinac Grand Traverse Grayling & Charlevoix MANCELONA & NORTH WESTERN MANCELONA HANDLE CO. MICHIGAN...