Railroad: Manistee Light and Traction Company (E)

Northern Michigan Traction → Manistee Light & Traction Company → Manistee Railway

Built: 1907 - acquired line of Northern Michigan Traction

Operated for five years.

Conveyed: 1912 - to Manistee Railway

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

Fourteen miles were laid in 1892 connecting Eastlake with Filer City via Manistee, with a branch from Peanut Junction to Orchard Beach on Lake Michigan. The lines has seventeen  passing sidings.

The company supplied its own power and the carhouse was well-equipped wit blacksmith, carpenter, machine and paint shops and a transfer table for shifting cars between shop and barn sections.

Time Line

1917. The railroad commission orders the Manistee Light & Traction Co. to equip their cars with signal bells and bell cords and to place a man on each car used for passenger service ti insure safe handling of such cars. [MCR-1917]