The Crapo Lake & Northwestern Railroad was built in 1882 and was located in Charlton Township in the southeast corner of Otsego County, west of Lewiston. (Section 24 of T25N-R2W).
This was a standard gauge railroad which was 8 miles long with 30 lb. steel rails. It had many branches into forest holdings and dumped logs into Crapo Lake. The log were eventually floated down the AuSable River to mills at AuSable.
Built → Crapo Lake & Northwestern → Abandoned
Built: 1882 eight miles from Crapo Lake northwest to T29N-R1/2W in Otsego county.
Became: Abandoned, date not known.
Reference: [MRRC]
A private logging railroad owned by Gratwick, Smith & Fryer Lumber Co (GSF). [MRRC]
This railroad was owned by Gratwick, Smith & Fryer Lumber Company. [[NWL-1885] The railroad was about five miles south of Johannesburg, which was the largest nearby townsite.
1882. Built eight miles.
1885. The railroad dumped logs into Crapo Lake. They were then floated down the Au Sable River to Au Sable where GSF had a mill. The road had two Baldwin locomotives (14 and 20 tons), 20 Russel cars, and was able to reach speeds of 25 mph. [NWL-1885][LEW]
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