Station: Seney, MI

Seney was founded about 1882 with the coming of the Alger, Smith Company which logged the area. [MPN] The town was on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railroad (later WC/CN) about 22 miles west of Newberry. Seney had an early reputation as a pretty rough town. The town was also served by the north/south Manistique railway from 1893 to about 1910.

Photo Info: Top photo, a DSS&A train with snow plow attached ready for winter. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, the DSS&A depot at Seney in 1912. [Charles Hansel collection, UMB]. 3rd, the agent posing for a photo at the Seney Depot. [PWL]

Notes

Seney was also an at-grade crossing of the north-south Manistique railway and the DSS&A. This was an interlocked crossing, protected by a Gravit interlocking machine. [MRC-1903]

Time Line

1890. The depot here was built on Railroad Street about 1890. [UPM]

1893. The Manistique railway is built through Senay from Germfask (south) to Grand Marais. [MRL]

1895. The mail from Seney to Grand Marais is still carried by dog sledges (sic) notwithstanding the fact that the Manistique Railway has been completed to the latter place and has a train daily each way. The people are kicking and want the mail sent by train. [CCA-1895-0214]

1903. The DSS&A crossed the Manistique Railway at Seney at an interlocked crossing. This was a Gravitt Interlocking Switch Co. machine. [MCR-1904]

1907. The DSS&A had a water tower at Seney in 1907. [SSM1907]

1910. The Manistique railroad is sold to lumber companies and abandoned shortly thereafter. [MRL]

1918. The DSS&A had an agent/operator and an assistant during the day at this location. [TRT]