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Alpena and Northern Railroad
The Alpena and Northern Railroad (A&N) 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 an 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).[2][3] In Alpena, the railroad used the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad's station on the north bank of the Thunder Bay River.[4] In 1894, the Alpena and Northern extended its line another 28.6 miles (46.0 km) southwest from LaRocque into Montmorency County.[5] On April 16, 1895, the A&N was bought by the Detroit and Mackinac Railway and ceased to exist as an independent company.[2] Its original main line between Alpena and LaRocque became part of the D&M's Northern Division, which reached Cheboygan in 1904.[6] The section of the original mainline southwest of LaRocque, known variously as the Valentine Branch or Jackson Lake Branch after its acquisition by the D&M, was abandoned south of Hurst in 1903 as the logging industry moved on to other areas.[7] The D&M abandoned the remainder of that branch in 1923.[8] The Lake State Railway, successor to the D&M, abandoned the line in its entirety in the early 2000s.[9] Notes
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