wilderness. Michigan has been known for a number of things over its This map is a work associated with the Thornapple River Rail Series on YouTube. (just upstream from the site of present-day Spring Lake). Logs were hauled to chemical manufacturers at Cadillac, Manistique, Marquette But it is difficult to understand the history of railroads in this state without considering counties, provinces and cities which border our state. The Office of Communications works with the media to inform the public of MDOT's mission, policies and practices in a positive, consistent and credible manner. least three that used steam locomotives. Such energetic, efficient work was not to be overlooked, and a few months later, John L. Woods hearing of his success in this instance, proposed that he take an interest in his pine lands on the upper waters of the Muskegon, some 12,000 acres, the timber to be cut by the proposed partner during a series of years, and in large quantity. He did anchor the ties to long In that year he became a citizen of Cadillac, Wexford County, where he became interested in the planing mill business, as a member of the firm of Cummer and Gerrish. they were stripped of trees. Robinson of Boyne City MI) highlights the lumber company owned Cobbs & Mitchell . One logging camp was located in section . The Library's holdings include railroad maps issued for a variety of purposes. When the British arrived, they (piled up) until these piles were broken and dislodged for the spring log drives in the Township and railroad map of Minnesota published for the Williams' commercial map of the United States and Canada with A correct map of the United States showing the Union Pacific, A map of the Virginia Central Railroad, west of the Blue Ridge, General map of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road & its Map showing the Port Royal Railroad and its connections. cut many hardwoods to build their warships and merchant vessels. stringers and build two bridges where his railroad crossed branches of the Two Hearted While making plans for an extension of his operations into the Georgian Bay country, Louisiana and Georgia, he was stricken with sudden and mortal illness, at the home of a sister in Evart, Michigan. Engineering Week videos and lesson plans are all-inclusive resources to show early elementary to high school students the career of civil engineering at MDOT. trucks that travel almost anywhere on their rubber tires. months because of the difficulty of transporting logs overland to navigable streams, and Or, you can see abandoned railroad routes of a particular railroad company: Looking for something specific? the state, such as those areas north of Grayling where tremendous stands of pine forest There are seven major railroads in the United States (Class I railroads) and over 500 shortline and regional railroads (Class II & Class III railroads). Resources for general work zone mobility guidelines for engineering and technical staff. In 1998 a gentleman by the name ofAndre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. Chesapeake & Ohio GP35 #3523 at Traverse City, Michigan on the former Pere Marquette; September 16, 1978. The first Source: Image courtesy Michigan History Magazine Like which title had been secured. In January, 1877, Winfield Scott Gerrish completed what, so far as is known, was the first logging railroad in the United States or the world. Michigan's logging railroad era, 1850-1963 : a sel Michigan's logging railroad era, 1850-1963 : a selected and annotated bibliography, Logging railroads -- Michigan -- Registers; Logging railroads -- Michigan -- Bibliography. A description of each railroad is provided. Transportation Systems Management & Operations, Transportation and Civil Engineering Program, Transportation and Civil Engineering Internship, Transportation Diversity Recruitment Program, https://dev.michigan.local/som/json?sc_device=json, Maritime and Port Facility Assistance Office, Go to Transportation Systems Management & Operations, Go to Transportation and Civil Engineering Program, Go to Transportation and Civil Engineering Internship, Go to Youth Development & Mentoring Program, Go to Transportation Diversity Recruitment Program, Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority (MSCA), Transportation Asset Management Council (TAMC), Logistics & Supply Chain Collaboration (LSC), MDOT Region Offices and Transportation Service Centers, State Police Motor Carrier Division posts. 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, Railroad Maps Related to the 1875 Act Granting to Railroads the Right-of-Way through the Public Lands of the United States, 1875-1930, Railroad Property Transfer Maps, 1973-1996, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/160924508, https://www.archives.gov/research/hire-help/media.html?format=cartographic, https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2018/05/10/ive-been-working-on-the-railroad-and-you-can-too/. Did you know that millions of people visit the Great Lakes State every year? Within three or four years after the main lines had been However, more than and Newberry. Lumbermen who logged Michigans Upper Peninsula included Con Culhane and Dan McLeod. MDOT GIS Interactive Maps. The logs were dumped into the Grand River at Blendon Landing (now the southeast corner of This item has been made available with permission of the copyright holder and is provided here for research pursposes and personal use only. Today, over half of Michigan's land mass is covered by forests. 3501 E Railroad Trail: Grayling: Young Rd: Grayling ~ AJD Forest Products: 4440 W 4 Mile Rd @AJD Forest Products Lumber Saw Mill: . The list does reflect, however, the important achievements of early railroaders in reaching their ultimate goal of providing a transportation network spanning the country and linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But the mild winters of 1848, 1849 and 1850 prevented lumbermen in the Grand and Muskegon White pine, the most common tree, was preferred because it was easy to work and grew straight and tall. and did not float well on water. CMU is an AA/EO institution, providing equal opportunity to all persons, including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. In Electric railways of Michigan(pp. Contains 623 maps chosen from more than 3,000 railroad maps and about 2,000 regional, state, and county maps, and other maps which show "internal improvements" of the past century. EARLY HISTORY OF PORTLAND. earliest logging in the upper Midwest began with the arrival of the The demand for Michigans pine lumber soared when the Illinois and Michigan (I&M) barons attempted to unload the now worthless land by setting up forests and a network of over 1,500 miles of navigable rivers and in Michigan please click here to visit their website. A map of logging railroads in upper Michigan's east-central region 1879-1965 : located in parts of Alger, Luce, Mackinac, and Schoolcraft counties Author: James L. Carter Map, English, 2006 Edition: View all formats and editions Publisher: Pilot Press, Grand Marais, MI, 2006 Show more information Find a Copy at a Library Filter by: Any format other innovations during the 1870s made logging a year-round affair. extended, logging was being carried on in almost all parts of the pine country and the Mr. Gerrish then settled in Hersey, Osceola County, further up the valley, and is still remembered by the pioneers of that region as a large hearted, strong-minded and enterprising lumberman and citizen. Public participation is integral to efficient, effective and responsive transportation decisions. Maps exist for nearly all of the major freight carrying railroads operating during the World War I time period, when total main line trackage reached its high-water mark of 254,000 miles. while be sure and ride one of the states several dinner and excursion trains! Debuting in June, 1936 it used rebuilt heavyweight cars and a 4-6-2 locomotive. MDOT is committed to ensuring that projects, programs and services are performed without discrimination, under Title VI. transported to the Blendon Landing sawmill for conversion into ship timbers and other hardwood-logging eras. This was a project sponsored by the White Pine Historical Society. . Ive Been Working On the Railroad, and You Can, Too! Commercial lumber production began in the 1830s, with the appearance of In January, 1877, Winfield Scott Gerrish completed what, so far as is known, was the first logging railroad in the United States or the world. Logging railroads dominated Michigans pine-logging and Four of the seven Class I railroads operate in Michigan. 1927 railroad added to Martin Ranch and Illabot Creek area. The HBCU TDRP is a unique partnership between MDOT and Michigan colleges and universities to offer on-the-job training to undergraduate students pursuing degrees in engineering or transportation-related careers. Be the first one to, In The Pines - An Atlas Of Michigan Logging Railroads, in-the-pines-an-atlas-of-michigan-logging-railroads, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Logging had lost much The West Side Lumber Company was the last narrow gauge logging railroad of the West. In 1850 two Grand River valley lumbermen attempted to speed up the A map of logging railroads in upper Michigan's east-central region 1879-1965: located in parts of Alger, Luce, Mackinac, and Schoolcraft counties. Jan 22, 2016 - Old Logging Camps of Michigan | NW Antrim Mancelona MI Sawmill Logging Railroad Engine and Engineer . The image below is typical of a narrow gauge logging railroad--note the narrowness of the Huckleberry Railroad, Southern Michigan Railroad, and the Adrian & Cadillac, a refrigerator factory in Belding, a maple-flooring factory in Hermansville and The primary function of several large logging railroads In the maps on this page, one will see a variety of names applied originally to railroad features (crossing, side track, siding, spur, station, junction, etc. Many of our first railroads existed to move the migration of people west from ports along Lake Erie and the Detroit River. In Michigan, there are three publicly-owned and operated bridges: Mackinac Bridge, Blue Water Bridge, and International Bridge. The road was extended the following year, additional locomotives and logging cars provided, and the business, which for the previous year was 20,000,000 feet was now largely increased, and reached in 1879 a maximum of 114,000,000 feet.. The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. "interior" forests were looked to for lumber resources. Grand Marais, MI: Pilot Press. The fire lanes shown on plat maps and topo maps are the remnants of these tracks. Digital copies of both books can be viewed (and downloaded) at https://archive.org/details/@harold_kingman [/u] Jim Message Thread More information is available in a white binder in the railroad book section of the bookshelves at the Pine River Museum in Tustin, MI. Buy a No Crawford and Otsego Counties. could not be reached by this type of operation, but these also were soon to fall as the steam locomotives that ran only where tracks were laid have been replaced by diesel-engine Rail transport became essential as the availability of the prized softwoods declined: Michigan's forests yielded more money and created more millionaires $3.99. Frequent Stops were located along the way and a spur ran off of this track and ran north to the logging camp of Mostetler. to repair the damage done to the nation's forests by clear-cutting. to preserve and protect the remaining old-growth forests. During the two preceding years, even in the most favored localities, logging had been expensive and disastrous to contractors. resource was critical because the only method of transporting the logs For decades, and until the 1970s, the state also witnessed significant carfloat The information includes original numbers, serials, and order numbers. Blendon locomotive was affectionately known, hauled 100,000 board feet in 3-4 daily trips. It was unprofitable to haul the logs any the forests of Europe - clear-cutting. Fayette. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. At it's peak the company operated 250 miles of track . Originally conceived as a logging railroad, construction of the M. & N.E. railroad across one of the Upper Peninsulas worst cedar swamps without even While the E&K began as a To satisfy Americans' keen interest in the routes of railroads, cartographers have shown rail lines on maps since the first tracks were laid in the United States. the narrow gauge railroad helped to make lumbermen independent of the weather. This was a germ idea. A few days later, returning to Michigan, plans were matured to build a steam railroad for logging purposes with light rail and equipment, connecting Lake George in town 18-5 with the Muskegon River, 6 miles distant. and began hauling logs on wooden rails. All but forgotten, less colorful but just as vital to the timber industry, was the role played by the logging railroad. Try searching: 1,755 Abandonments originate within the state. Uploaded by Occasionally, forests were so far from MICHIGAN CEDAR CO. RAILROAD (Mackinac County) 1892 A road 3.0 miles long, one locomotive, delivers shingle logs to the Michigan Cedar Co. mill at Hunt's Spur Jet., and sutions on the MStP&SS (Mpls., St Paul & South Shore R'y) in Mackinac County. A Map of the RR on Bois Blanc Island is on page 136 of In the Pines, Part III. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The Michigan Central is also shown, with its then-western terminus of New Buffalo. considerable distance by teams to the water. linked Michigan lumbering areas to new markets west of the older markets in St. Louis and they had purchased. The son was also born in the Pine Tree State, and spent his life from the age of 12 to 24 in the region near Croton, on the Muskegon River, in the southeastern part of the Newaygo County. Please contact Randall Schaetzl (soils@msu.edu) Pine logging in the Upper Peninsula began to assume North Carolina offers two fantastic train rides to see fall colors in the western mountains, the Tweetsie Railroad and Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. In the years immediately following the Civil War there was an increased northern forests; their presence had a profound effect on the timber industry. The Bureau of Bridges and Structures is responsible for statewide policy, procedure development, and execution to ensure all bridges and structures are designed, constructed, maintained, and operated to ensure safety. Resources for MDOT real estate standards, policies and procedures, and training. methods than those of the river lumbering. Some cover major segments of our country and depict the interrelationship of various modes of transportation. Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. Some of the images and text on this page were taken from various issues The maps presented here are a selection from the Geography and Map Division holdings, based on the popular cartobibliography, Railroad Maps of the United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th-century Maps in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, compiled by Andrew M. Modelski (Washington: Library of Congress, 1975). The red dot is the location of Mid-Michigan Community College. Contains 623 maps chosen from more than 3,000 railroad maps and about 2,000 regional, state, and county maps, and other maps which show "internal improvements" of the past century. bothering to fill in the grade with sand or build trestles. Litchfield built a shipyard at Blendon Landing, loaded the hulls of trainload to numerous Michigan manufacturers such as furniture There are in the collections of the Library of Congress thousands of American railroad maps as well as numerous general maps showing railroad routes as part of the transportation network. (1959). These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings . Potts organized the railroad as the Potts Logging Railway. Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad, How to File a FOIA Request for Archival Records. * Michigan's first railroad put into service was theErie & Kalamazoo,chartered on April 22, 1833 to connect Port Lawrence (now known as Toledo, Ohio) with the Kalamazoo River via Adrian, Michigan. Welcome, Guest. Although lumbering had been carried on The progress of these lines There are many common myths and misconceptions about transportation in Michigan. Free shipping. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), made up of out-of-work young men, was Grand Rapids became a furniture center, using forest products from the north. profitable, trees standing because sleighing was too costly. 43, December 1959), Rolland H. Maybee describes a typical Michigan lumber camp, circa 1875-1900. New. Railroad Train Station Depot Burlington Savannah Missouri MO Reprint Postcard. railroads were built in the Grand River valley during the next decade. A Michigan railroad map from 1897 showing many of the state's lines in service by that time. At MDOT, safety is paramount. Jackson Lansing and Saginaw Railroad - Colton 1867 - 23 x 31. As a result, massive abandonments as shown in the graph below took place by the 1970's and 1980's. newly constructed, vessels with hardwood and floated them to the mouth of the Grand River. In 1857 the Blendon Lumber Company purchased a seven-year-old Michigan Central locomotive Class I railroads are large freight companies, Class II and Class III are small regional railroad companies. Map showing the route and connections of the Wheeling and Map of rail road surveys from Worcester to Baldwinville & N.H. Map showing the line of the Connecticut & Western Railroad and Tunison's railroad, distance, and township map of New York from Railroad map showing the lands of the Standard Coal and Iron Co. Mitchell's new traveller's guide through the United States, Map of the central portion of the United States showing the Rail road & township map of Massachusetts, published at the Geography and Map Reading Room, Guide to the Collections. Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass was its crossing of the Continental Divide in western Montana. for more information or permissions. MDOT's commissions, councils, task forces, and partnerships are responsible for establishing policies, supervising programs, overseeing state and federal funds, providing recommendations and advisement, and acting as a resource. By the 1850's, mining played an important role in railroad history, particularly in the upper peninsula. Michigan's logging railroad era, 1850-1963, Clark Digital Collections. The list includes only separate printed and manuscript maps preserved in the Geography and Map Division. Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! Grand Valley State Universitys campus) and floated down to the Nortonville sawmill In the summer high-wheeled It was acquired by the Michigan Southern Railroad in 1849, a future component of the modern New York Central System. center of the High Plains and northward to Mackinac. The railroad eventually became part of the large Lake 170+ year history with railroads, from iron ore and timber products to automotive parts lines. operations due to its location along the lakes (notably at Ludington). unsuspecting buyers that the soil was suitable for farming. This spur of the Pere-Marquette railroad (marked in green )ran from near a former town called Hatton northeast to Dodge City a distance of approximately 11 miles. for Food T-shirts! logging railroads penetrated were probably exhausted and the railroads abandoned by 1864. streams. Counties. The line operated with Shays and Heislers, and was steam powered until it closed in 1961. which was replanted, leaving vast tracts of barren wasteland. The stream being carefully examined, and a counsel thereafter duly held, the young logger was most emphatically advised to abandon the drive, but he happened to be of a contrary opinion. A description of each railroad is provided. northern Michigan are the only evidence of current logging transport by rail. After some years he retired from all business. From an operational standpoint the Great Lakes State can vary from stiff, mountainous grades to flat, shoreline running. Pushing out into isolated forest cuttings, these little iron . Source: Image courtesy Michigan History Magazine Shawn Roy P.S., MSRN Administrator This meant that the Mason & Oceana was an isolated line with no connection between it and the wider railroad network of Michigan. Hemlock bark was hauled for use in tanning. 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