Railroad: Black River Railroad

Built → Black River Railroad → DBC&A railroad

Built: Date unknown.

Operated for at least 5 years.

Became: Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad in 1886.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

Built/owned by Alger Smith & Company, a logging firm.

Time Line

August 24, 1881. Last Friday evening a locomotive arrived at this port [Alpena] on board of a lighter, from Black River. This iron horse - or rather, pony - has been for some time used at Black River in the lumber business, by R. A. Alger & Co., running on a lumber railroad back into the woods for several miles, and bringing to the mills the logs for manufacture. Though constant and we may say hard usage, the "machine" has become old enough to need considerable repairing, and hence the removal of the locomotive, a section of the track and all, to this port, to be thoroughly overhauled and rebuilt at the machine shop of Warren & Macdonald. [AArgus-1881-0824]