Saturday Apr 27, 2019
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT
Saturday, April 27, 2019
9am - 3pm
The tour starts at the Benzie Area Historical Museum,
Benzonia
Tickets are $75 before April 15, $80 after.
Reservations are required.
Tour includes motor coach, lunch, Kaleva Depot Museum Tour and commemorative book.
To purchase tickets, visit our website:
http://www.benziemuseum.org/events.html
Call the Historical Museum at 231-882-5539 with questions.
PLEASE JOIN US!! Railroad and history enthusiasts are invited to join us for the Manistee & Northeastern Old Railroad Grade & Depot Tour.
This is a return of the Benzie Area Historical Society’s popular motor coach tours of local railroad history.
In the spring of 1887, the Buckley & Douglas Lumber Company of Manistee began building a railroad to transport logs from the forest to its sawmill in Manistee, and they named the railroad the Manistee & Northeastern. At its peak in 1915, the M & NE carried 190,000 passengers.
The tour starts at the Benzie Area Historical Museum and will follow the M & NE railroad grade route to Honor, Lake Ann, Interlochen, Karlin, Nessen City, Platte River Junction, Copemish, Thompsonville, and Kaleva. A highlight will be a tour of the historic Kaleva Depot Museum which was rebuilt in 1908 following a fire.
Tour includes motor coach, lunch, Kaleva Depot Museum Tour and commemorative book.
Tickets are $75/advance, and reservations are required. To purchase tickets, visit our website:
http://www.benziemuseum.org/events.html
This tour is a collaboration between the Benzie Area Historical Society and the Kaleva Historical Society.
Printed courtesy of www.benzie.org/ – Contact the Benzie County Chamber of Commerce for more information.
826 Michigan Ave., Benzonia , MI 49616 – (231) 882-5801 – accounting@benziechamber.org