An electric interurban car?  No, this is Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena gas motor car No. 17, which has stopped along it's dense forest route for a photograph - perhaps to get a shot of two paying customers with the conductor.  The location of this photo us not known.  The BCG&A was primarily a logging road which was owned by the White family of Boyne City.  The main line went the distance of its name after it was completed to Alpena in 1918.  It was truncated back to only a short section between Boyne City and its interchange point with the GR&I at Boyne Falls in 1935.  With most of its main line lasting only 17 years, it was one of Michigan's shortest-lived short lines.  The BCG&A had many elevation changes as it travelled across the state and many can still be seen today, near Elmira, Atlanta and in Alpena County.  [Mark Worrall Collection]

BCG&A