Brief History
Its late spring. The War to End All Wars is over, and the country no longer needs in quantity what this railroad once delivered.
Tough men and women continue to scratch out a meager living, but they all know deep down their lives are changing.
In it’s hey-day, the ND&AC Railroad delivered timber from forests once thought to have more trees than any one could ever cut - they were wrong. The mines provided important minerals for the “effort”, only to not find a market once the “effort” was no longer needed. Now the ground and the streams around the mines lay wasted. A testimony to short sighted vision.
Vast quantities of materials from the mountains were once deliver to the port city of Mt. Clemens, where a steady flow of goods and services kept thousands of people busy day and night. Today, the flow is only a trickle, and business owners and merchants are scrambling to make ends meet. The once bustling neighborhoods around the wharf area have become seedy and in need of a face lift.
Still, there is hope in the air (cleaner now that many of the factories have shut down), and in the distance a whistle blows............providing hope that prosperity may just be around the bend.
The ND&AC Back Story
