Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway
…Straits of Mackinac, to Marquette on Lake Superior. The roadbed included a surveyor-straight 25-mile (40 km) east-west section, the ancestor of today's "Seney stretch". Although the state of Michigan granted the DM&M more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km2) of state land, almost 9000 acres-per-mile (23 km2/km) as a…