Location: Trowbridge, MI - W.D. Young Logging Railroad

The W.D. Young & Company built their own logging railroad to reach their timber holdings in southern Cheboygan and northeast Otsego County. The railroad connected with the Michigan Central Mackinaw Division at Trowbridge, running southeast, which was 3.5 miles south of Wolverine and about two miles north of the Otsego County line.

Notes

The railroad was owned by the W.D. Young & Company, which had saw mill facilities in Bay City.

According to Hannum [ITP1], the Young railroad utilized grades of the MC's abandoned Vanderbilt Branch.

Young had a close relationship with Yuill Brothers and Yuill was a major supplier of logs for Young's Bay City mill, via the MC Mackinaw Branch. [ITP1]

Time Line

1910. The Young railroad was 14 miles long and standard gauge. They had an additional 4.0 miles under construction. 40 and 65 lb. rails. The railroad operated two locomotives and 100 cars. They had one McGiffert log loader; a d.c. electric light plant, 1,000 incandescent lamps, a machine shop with electric motors and a commissary. [AML-1910]

1924. Young & Company no longer had a logging railroad. They had a band mill at Bay City. [AML-1926]