Alpena and Northern Railroad

The Alpena and Northern Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated briefly in northern Michigan during the 1890s.

The company incorporated on July 28, 1893, with the intention of building a 85-mile (137 km) line from Alpena to Mackinaw City, on the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac. On November 18 of that same year the company opened a line from Alpena to LaRocque (now Hawks), for a total length of 35 miles (56 km).^[1]

On April 16, 1895, the A&N was bought by the Detroit & Mackinac and ceased to exist as an independent company.^[2]

Notes

↑ Meints (1992), 36; Michigan Railroad Commission (1894), 4.
↑ Meints (1992), 36.

References

Meints, Graydon M. (1992). Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0870133187. OCLC 300611233.
Michigan Railroad Commission (1894). Annual Report.

Constituent companies of the Detroit and Mackinac Railway

1886 Black River Railroad 1895 Alpena and Northern Railroad 1914 Au Sable and Northwestern Railway 1949 Erie and Michigan Railway and Navigation

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