Railroad: Huron & Western Railroad Company

This short railroad ran through north Bay City, from the D&M railroad bridge west to the vicinity of Tower 12 (south of the MC Wenona Yard). The line was believed to be built to tap coal fields northwest of Bay City. The company had branches to Wolverine Mines No. 2 and 3.

Built → Huron & Western Railroad → Pere Marquette railroad

Built: 1902 - from North Bay City west to coal mines.

Operated for 1 year.

Became: 1903 to the Pere Marquette railroad.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

This was known as the Wolverine Mine branch by the PM.

Time Line

1903. SNAPSHOT: Aggregate length of all tracks was 13.5 miles. This likely was a  construction railroad for the Pere Marquette. The original board was from Detroit and there were only six stockholders, all from Michigan. General offices of the company were in Detroit. The road employed 1 engineer, one fireman, 1 conductor and 2 brakemen, and owned 2 locomotives, 2 passenger cars and one baggage car. The H&W had some passenger revenue in its first year of operation.

1904. March 26. Railroad service at Bay City suspended. The breaking of jams in the Saginaw river at Saginaw and elsewhere precipitated a flood that covered all of the lowlands south of Bay City and a big jam has formed at Zilwaukee. The Huron & Western mining train was unable to get in this evening, the bridge being two feet under water, and about 300 Pere Marquette miners are held away from their homes in the Bay cities. [DFP-1904-0326]