Railroad: Cummer Lumber Company 


Built → Cummer Lumber Company railroad → Abandoned


Built: 

Became: Abandoned

Reference: [MRRC]


Cummer & Diggins Lumber Co. No. 8 Cummer Lumber Co. Shay Locomotive Cummer Lumber Co. Advertisment Photo Info: Top, Cummer & Diggins Lumber Company No. 8 at Cadillac. Michigan. Date unknown. 2nd image, a Cummer Lumber Company Shay-style locomotive No. 110, taken in 1881. [UMB collection]. 3rd image, a advertisement of a Cummer Lumber Company Shay-type locomotive in their yard. The advertisement notes that the locomotive can move 47 cars containing 303 logs.


Notes

These lines included Cummer and Diggins, Cummer J and Son, and the Cummer Lumber Company. All were 3' gauge private logging roads in Cadillac. These lines included Cummer and Diggins, Cummer J and Son, and the Cummer Lumber Company. All were 3' gauge private logging roads in Cadillac.


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Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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