At the head of Pine Lake, now Lake Charlevoix, a round house for the BCG & A Railroad was built shortly after the turn of the century and sheltered and serviced thirteen locomotives. Surrounding railroad yards, a station house, and offices stretched along the waterfront, and by 1907 there were fifteen miles of track within the village of Boyne. The railroad owned and maintained 254 Russell logging cars, 164 flatcars, 4 passenger coaches, a doublehead snow plow, and 2 cabooses. In addition to servicing the booming lumbering industry, the trains transported many other goods and equipment to this fast growing community and offered three passenger trains daily connecting with other rail service, stagecoaches, and steamboats. The round house employed a crew of sixty men who worked both day and night shifts, with an average work day of ten hours and wages ranging from $1.50 to $3.00 a day. It had the reputation of being the best equipped machine shop north of Grand Rapids, and after the decline of the railroads it stood silently here until the end of the 1970's, when it was demolished.