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Station: Walloon Lake Jct., MI |
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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum |
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The spur to the Dock on Bear (now Walloon) Lake was built to haul logs, lumber and tourists. It is the southern terminus of the extensive GR&I resort train commuter service that ran south from Petoskey to Walloon Lake and north from Petoskey to Harbor Springs and to Alanson. Milepost 416 is in the main line leg of the "Y". The Walloon Lake branch right-of-way crosses US-31 south of Dickson's Lodge which is on the SE corner of the US-31-Springvale Road intersections. Retired Pennsy locomotive Engineer Jack Smith told Carl Bajema that he used to turn the PRR passenger train that went as far north as Petoskey at the Walloon Lake "Y" and then back the passenger train into Petoskey in the 1960's. [CB/MIRX8] |
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