Railroad: Marquette County Gas Light and Traction Company (E)


Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Ry→ Marquette County Gas Light & Traction → Marquette Co. Gas & Electric


Bought: 1904 - from the Negaunee & Ishpeming Street Railway and Electric Company

Conveyed: 1906 - to the Marquette County Gas & Electric.

Reference: [MRRC]


Started in 1893, this was at first a summer-only operation. Within a couple of years, it was operating year around. For 14 years, it used single-truck cars. The company reorganized into the Marquette Consolidated Gas Light & Traction Co.

 

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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