Some of the images and text on this page were taken from various issues 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/. At MDOT, safety is paramount. There was the practice of "logging a round they were stripped of trees. Wes Barris's SteamLocomotive.com is simply the best web resource on the study of steam locomotives. Resources for local governmental agencies that regularly require access to state right of way. Jan 22, 2016 - Old Logging Camps of Michigan | NW Antrim Mancelona MI Sawmill Logging Railroad Engine and Engineer . It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. out after a couple of unproductive growing seasons that they had been Publisher William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Physical Description 308 p. : ill., facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm. they had purchased. Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Blendon locomotive was affectionately known, hauled 100,000 board feet in 3-4 daily trips. New. The Antigo Daily Journal, June 10, 1923, reported the company was running their logging railroad into section 18 of T31N-R13E (Evergreen). This annotated list reveals the scope of the railroad map collection and highlights the development of railroad mapping in 19th-century America. the railroads were having financial trouble. In "Michigan's White Pine Era, 1840-1900" (Michigan History vol. Web Accessibility Notice | Website Feedback | Summary Shows drainage, cities and towns, and railroads in color. The CCC planted millions of seedlings and over time most of Michigan's A Map of the RR on Bois Blanc Island is on page 136 of In the Pines, Part III. 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. American-Rails.com collection. Ken Padgett (Kenneth W Padgett, Kenneth William Padgett)3134 Mercer Lane, San Diego, CA 92122 Alas, in 2013 the site closed. Some of these include the Henry Ford Museum, Michigan Transit Museum, The French built missions, forts, and fur-trading posts out of pine. Railroad lumbering oriented itself upon the pattern of the main railroad the first sawmills in the Saginaw area. Free printed Truck Operators Maps are available from: MDOTs GIS Unitprovides innovative solutions that solve spatial problems andsupport more informed decisions about Michigan's transportation infrastructure. The department also produces numerous geographic information system maps to assist commuters, tourists, and businesses. Please contact Randall Schaetzl (soils@msu.edu) Total railroad constructed was 38 miles extending from Rockport through Martin Ranch & Illabot Creek to Darrington Mainline connection was Andron 1917 railroad being constructed north along the Sauk River and two sides about 4 miles north of Darrington. the demand for lumber increased, so did the practice of clear-cutting. Both by training, and perhaps via inheritance, Mr. Gerrish was the proper man to have achieved this distinction. It ran up the beach a short ways to Leelanau Avenue as seen in a 1904 map, to the home of a railroad executive, it is said . Tracks: . this wealth fueled the great financial and industrial rise of the state 3501 E Railroad Trail: Grayling: Young Rd: Grayling ~ AJD Forest Products: 4440 W 4 Mile Rd @AJD Forest Products Lumber Saw Mill: . The Saginaw River had a total length of 864 miles. . The book maps the logging railroads and common carrier lines for many of the counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. to repair the damage done to the nation's forests by clear-cutting. Lumber quickly added to railroad traffic from the forests of both peninsulas to points in southern Michigan and other states and provinces. forty," which meant buying forty acres and then cutting the timber River. Names G.W. Carl Jay Bajema was an additional author. This system also supports three intercity passenger-rail routes. While the state may no longer feature passenger trains like the Red Arrow, C&Os Pere Marquettes, and New York Centrals Mercuries, today Amtrak operates Michigan-only services like the Blue Water and Pere Marquette. Commercial lumber production began in the 1830s, with the appearance of Logging, Railroad, Michigan, Lower Peninsula, History, Maps Collection opensource The book maps the logging railroads and common carrier lines for many of the counties in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. The Otsego County Historical Museum is located at 320 W. Main Street in downtown Gaylord and is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday through the summer. Previously, logging had ceased in the summer He was a native of Michigan and a graduate of the State University, but his preferences were toward an active business life. Davis Readings in the Geography of Michigan (1964). After serving in the internal revenue department for several years, in 1879, then 27 years of age, he bought a section of Pine land at Jennings, Cedar Creek Township, Wexford County, 6 miles north of Cadillac, and in March of the following year began the manufacture of lumber at Bonds Mill. seen in many places; not uncommonly they form the bases for present-day roads. The Michigan Department of Transportation produces an updated version of the state transportation map annually. which was replanted, leaving vast tracts of barren wasteland. The Internship Program offers undergraduate and graduate students interested in civil engineering and construction management careers, valuable experience by working with professional field staff. the state's northern counties, but it is being done very selectively, forests which 10-15 years before had "caused the speculative eye of the timber hunter 1889-1890 when mills cut a total of 5.5 billion board feet of lumber, American-Rails.com collection. Like the Big Wheels, Section V: Lines in Upper Peninsula. Oak and later cedar barren areas were reforested. I will not give it up, he replied, and despite prediction of failure, more dams were built; some lakes discovered were speedily drained and every drop of water utilized, until the last log was driven into the Muskegon. Price: $36.95 Details. Railroads are the lifeblood for North America's freight transportation. 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 How Michigan had the First logging railroad in the world, Written by Perry F. Powers in 1912 in the book ", Early images of the History of the Grand Traverse Region. 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The TSCs are designed to respond to the transportation needs of local communities for the highest level customer service. began in May 1887 by local lumber barons Charles Ruggles, Edward Buckley and William Douglas as a way to haul timber from their pine lands to their sawmill, The Buckley and Douglas Lumber Company. Although lumbering had been carried on HISTORY OF COMPANY K, 33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry, U. S. A. 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L. Whiting on early Detroit, Black Hawk, Cholera and speaking on the 'the father of medicine in Michigan. Lumber quickly added to railroad traffic from the forests of both peninsulas to points in southern Michigan and other states and provinces. forts, and fur-trading posts out of pine. Source: Image courtesy Michigan History Magazine The Detroit & Pontiac, soon to become the Detroit & Milwaukee, is not shown. His death, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. F. Higgins, of Cadillac, on 13th of October, 1895, removed from the community a splendid man of usefulness and high honor -- a worthy father of Winfield Scott Gerrish. was to provide charcoal wood to numerous charcoal kilns in both the Lower and Upper wilderness. In 1857 the Blendon Lumber Company purchased a seven-year-old Michigan Central locomotive The list includes only separate printed and manuscript maps preserved in the Geography and Map Division. However, there are notable losses such as: This number is even well above the average of most states, which have seen a decline typically between 45% to 50%. A pair of handsome Pennsylvania F7's, led by #9808, appear to be carrying out switching chores on the former Grand Rapids & Indiana at Mackinaw City, Michigan in February, 1964. Copyright Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich. 48859 | Phone 989-774-4000 Privacy Policy | Transportation Reality Check takes on some of these myths, and explains why MDOT does things the way they do. American-Rails.com collection. * 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. I hope you enjoy this website which has been a hobby of mine for many years. Those were busy, pleasant days. McLeod built a logging In the 1800's, Fayette was a bustling iron-smelting town on the Garden Peninsula, a spike of land that jabs down into Lake Michigan along the U.P.'s southern shore. Chicago. Most of the barren land couldn't be sold under any It is the backbone of Michigans 120,000-mile highway, road and street network. The mills were close to the cutting areas instead of at the mouths of the rivers, The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. One line was built northwest to what would become Fairview, then on to lumber camps at a place called Tong in north-west Oscoda County. Ash, cherry, hickory, oak, walnut and other hardwood trees were cut and By the 1850's, mining played an important role in railroad history, particularly in the upper peninsula. 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In addition, airlines pulled away much of the passenger business. Resources for truckers regarding necessary rules, guidelines, restrictions, and permits, needed to safely transport goods throughout Michigan. 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). Before the lumber boom, most of Michigan was densely forested on February 25, 2022. Logging railroads dominated Michigans pine-logging and and catch ore trains along the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & North Western. User registration, CORS site information and RINEX data files pertaining to MDOT CORS can be found at MDOTCORS.org. By the early 1900's, automobile production in Detroit and other cities in Michigan became a major customer of railroads. White pine, the most common tree, was preferred because it was easy to work and grew straight and tall. than did all the gold mined during California's Gold Rush. Maps of the RRs on Beaver Island can be found on pages 84 and 85 of In the Pines, An Atlas of Michigan Logging Railroads. It was about 6 miles in length and ran from Lake George on the mainline of what is now the Ann Arbor Railroad to the headwaters of the Muskegon River. Public participation is integral to efficient, effective and responsive transportation decisions. Cadillac, a refrigerator factory in Belding, a maple-flooring factory in Hermansville and Four of the seven Class I railroads operate in Michigan. local down by the depot short lines. It was apparent early in the The logs were dumped into the Grand River at Blendon Landing (now the southeast corner of So, whatever your interests might be, Michigan railroads offer a A small quantity of logs was cut from the tract in question, and banked on the Dock and Tom Creek, but the expensive drive absorbed what should have been profit. Both kinds of work were calculated to harden him into a stalwart man. There are seven major railroads in the United States (Class I railroads) and over 500 shortline and regional railroads (Class II & Class III railroads). 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). In 1850 two Grand River valley lumbermen attempted to speed up the Resources for the development of quality transportation project documents and services. Other maps were published specifically to promote particular lines, some of which were never built. Therefore, there remained great stretches of Copyright horse-powered operation it switched to steam power by 1837, a year after Michigan also produces over 15 million Christmas trees each year, Buy Will Write Pine logging in the Upper Peninsula began to assume almost in a body, on a part of which there was some good white oak." Pulpwood loading yards and gondola cars scattered throughout Or, you can see abandoned railroad routes of a particular railroad company: Looking for something specific? 43, December 1959), Rolland H. Maybee describes a typical Michigan lumber camp, circa 1875-1900. logging by wooden rails were successful enough that at least three additional logging begin, because it had more than three million acres of white pine Hearted River to the Tahquamenon River valley one winter by laying tracks in front of him 11-11-93 MANISTIQUE TRI-WEEKLY PIONEER The history of the Transportation was a major expense lumbermen encountered when The Veteran Internship Program assists honorably discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces as they transition into the civilian workforce. personal use. MDOT GIS Interactive Maps. Photos East Branch & Lincoln Railroad 2-4-2T #5 works the mill in Lincoln, New Hampshire during a fall afternoon in the mid-1940s. Carl Jay Bajema was an additional author. MICHIGAN - By Mrs. N. B. Many small which is the 97-mile, 110 mph Wolverine Corridor that connects Detroit Huckleberry Railroad, Southern Michigan Railroad, and the Adrian & Hits: 20550. An estimated unsuspecting buyers that the soil was suitable for farming. The Railroads also permitted deeper penetration into forested areas: spur lines made it to the mills only by railroads, but until about 1865 the rivers supplied the demand and with lumber for customers living on the prairies. extended, logging was being carried on in almost all parts of the pine country and the Among the collections are official printed government surveys conducted to determine the most practical railroad routes, Pacific Railroad Surveys, U.S. General Land Office maps which show land grants to railroads, surveys for specific rights-of-way, and general surveys prepared to accompany progress reports of individual railroads. 12-3-79 L GAZ also 12-6-79 NWL p3 In October the work was begun, and the first of January following saw the road finished and in successful operation. After the iron market . Logging railroads made it profitable for lumbermen to clear-cut forests, taking not railroads introduced the second phase of lumbering. A Map of Logging Railroads in Upper Michigan's East-central Region, 1879-1965: Located in Parts of Alger, Luce, Mackinac and Schoolcraft Counties Pilot Press, 2006 - Curtis (Mich.) 0. A.C. Kalmbach photo. A.C. Kalmbach photo. The following spring (1874) found him with his logging gone and in good time, and preparations completed for the drive. The Office of Governmental Affairs represents MDOT's interests as new or amendatory legislation is developed or moving through the legislative process. Ive Been Working On the Railroad, and You Can, Too! Price: $36.95 Details. 40,000,000 board feet were transported on the Blendon Lumber company railroad before it The Lake County Historical Society office and museum are located at 830 N. Michigan Ave. in Baldwin. economical to allow cutting in areas that had been considered too far from the nearest demand for lumber in the west and the rivers of the Saginaw district could no longer It tapped the pine and For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. The tunnel, #11, was opened in 1909. Another reminder of local . MDOTCORS@Michigan.gov least three that used steam locomotives. operations due to its location along the lakes (notably at Ludington). USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration For many, the through lines running along the state's southern periphery are the most well-known, on their way to either Chicago, Detroit, or via southern Ontario. considerable distance by teams to the water. 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. William Nelson was the first postmaster. Winter snows seemed a thing of the past; new methods were considered; pole-roads and tramways talked of; but steam harnessed to a logging car had not yet been seen on Muskegon waters. operating in 1877 and connected Clare Countys Lake George with the Muskegon River, Others resemble contemporary strip road maps and show only a ribbon of land immediately adjacent to a specific railroad right-of-way. This item has been made available with permission of the copyright holder and is provided here for research pursposes and personal use only. Try searching: 1,755 Abandonments cut many hardwoods to build their warships and merchant vessels. and did not float well on water. Old railroad grades that stretch for miles in Lake County can still can be seen and explored. There are no reviews yet. MDOT's seven region offices each handle transportation-related construction, maintenance and programs within the region's geographic boundaries. Soliciting Sign Michigan (/ m n / ()) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States.With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly 97,000 sq mi (250,000 km 2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his, If you are researching anything EMD related please visit, If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the, services These engineering drawings consist primarily of maps and structure drawings, although other subjects such as bridges, grade crossings . Online map orders will be fulfilled with copies of the 2021 state transportation map. mostly pine. while be sure and ride one of the states several dinner and excursion trains! Originally conceived as a logging railroad, construction of the M. & N.E. Please login or register. Logging, which never disappeared altogether, continues, especially in chartered until April 22, 1833. However, some areas known as "stump railroads were built in the Grand River valley during the next decade. More information is available in a white binder in the railroad book section of the bookshelves at the Pine River Museum in Tustin, MI. 517-335-6299. for more information or permissions. Michigan. The peak of Michigan's great timber harvest was reached in 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. northern Michigan are the only evidence of current logging transport by rail. TRAC engages high school and middle school students in solving real-world problems, such as designing bridges or analyzing the environmental effects of building a highway. supports in iron and copper mines. Created / Published Philadelphia, 1876, c1874. prairies" still exist, even though it has been over a century since and began hauling logs on wooden rails. (just upstream from the site of present-day Spring Lake). By 1900 most of the pine in the Lower The state has lost a staggering 59% of its rail infrastructure since the 1920s and more than 5,000 miles overall. Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass was its crossing of the Continental Divide in western Montana. could not be reached by this type of operation, but these also were soon to fall as the General rules of thumb for an owner/operator of a Michigan Log Truck is 5 days for the truck, one day for yourself and if what you're doing doesn't eq. Today, the Michigan has been known for a number of things over its Hardwood logs were delivered by the MDOT has seven region offices and several geographically located Transportation Service Centers (TSCs) in each region that handle transportation-related construction and maintenance programs. In 1875-6 he represented the Mecosta district in the legislature and continued his logging and lumbering operations at Hersey until 1881, when chronic rheumatism forced him to withdraw from one of the most active and commendable careers known among Northern Michigan lumberman. Not a tree had been cut in this township. $3.99. This map is a work associated with the Thornapple River Rail Series on YouTube. the forests of Europe - clear-cutting. The maps are arranged in our Catalog by the name of the railroad. Michigans unpredictable weather, Lower Peninsula Map Here. And, if these tire you out after a The office also works directly with legislators' offices regarding state and local transportation constituent concerns. 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. 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. Trains led to a gradual decline in log driving and rafting on rivers, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad - Colton 1871 - 23 x 28.35. The line operated with Shays and Heislers, and was steam powered until it closed in 1961. 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