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Station: Alpena, MI. Alpena was settled around 1835 and originally called Freemont but was changed by the post office to Alpena. [MPN] The first railroad communications from the south came in 1886 with the arrival of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena. The Alpena & Northern railroad was constructed northwest into the forests around 1893 after the ...
Boyne City &Southeastern railroad → Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad → Boyne City railroad. Operated for 30 years. Became: 1905 from Boyne City (BC&SE was built in 1893). Eventually to Alpena, plus forest branches. Became: Boyne City Railroad in 1935, cut back to Boyne City to GR&I near Boyne Falls connection. Reference: [MRRC]
Feb 1, 2023 · The Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena railroad was a common-carrier railroad which mainly transported logs from the forest to the White Lumber Company in Boyne City. The original line was built in 1893 from Boyne City reaching Boyne Falls and a connection with the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad.
Mar 11, 2014 · ALPENA — Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan’s planetarium held a standing room-only crowd to see a presentation on Alpena’s railroad history and the hobby of riding the rails in motorcars.
The Alpena and Northern Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated briefly in northern Michigan during the 1890s. The company incorporated on July 28, 1893, with the intention of building an 85-mile (137 km) line from Alpena to Mackinaw City, on the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac.
- 1893–1895
- 68.7 miles (110.6 km)
- 1,435 mm (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
- Detroit and Mackinac Railway
Downtown Alpena, Alpena, Michigan. 9,875 likes. Downtown Alpena is the heart of the Alpena community and the regional hub for NE Michigan.
The initial line was laid in 1893, connecting the docks at Boyne City (on Lake Charlevoix) with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. In November of 1905, the railroad was renamed the Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena Railroad, as tracks were laid towards Alpena, MI.
