Railroad: Marquette and Southeastern Railway Company

This was a logging road, 27 miles in length which connected Marquette with Lawson. They had a 5 mile branch from Whitman to Hoist. They owned 1.8 miles jointly with the DSS&A. The M&SE operated four stations in 1903.

Munising  → Marquette & Southeastern Railway → Munising Marquette & Southeastern Railway

Chartered: 1900

Operated for 11 years operationally. 23 years corporately.

Consolidated: 1911 - the Munising and the Marquette & Southeastern railways. Controlled by Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company at incorporation.

Merged: 1923 - into Lake Superior & Ishpeming.

Reference: [MRRC]

Photo Info: The crew of Marquette & Southeastern #32 pauses their freight train for a photograph in 1903. The location is not known. [UMB]

Notes

Time Line

1902. The company has extended passenger service between Ishpeming and Munising along with related railroads (LS&I and MRR). [MCR-1903]

1903. SNAPSHOT: The road employed 4 engineers and firemen, 3 conductors, 6 brakemen, 28 laborers and 15 others. They operated 2 locomotives, 25 box cars, 160 platform cars, and 1 steam shovel. Top five categories of freight hauled by tons: Wood (46%); ore (24%); logs (14%), pig or bloom iron (7%) and bituminous coal (2%). They owned 23 miles of telegraph line.

1905. April. The MM&SE begins construction of an extension of their line from Marquette to Big Bay. [RG=1905-0421]

1920. August Syverson, superintendent of the Ann Arbor railroad will at once become the superintendent of the Marquette, Munising and Southeastern and the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railroads with headquarters in Marquette. He has been with the Ann Arbor for 7 years, and before that was a trainmaster on the C&NW. [OT-1920-0319]