Station: Brimley, Michigan
Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum
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May, 1963: A 104.5 foot section of railroad bridge over the Waiska River at Brimley is moved by barge, skid and flatcars from the former railroad right-of-way and will be taken to Lake Bronson, Minnesota to be incorporated into a new bridge there. The bridge over the Waiska was built about 1914 and originally had nine spans totalling 436 feet in length. The project is part of the dismantling of the DSS&A track as a result of its merger with the Soo Line. Picking up of the rails between Brimley and the Sault is scheduled to start June 3, 1963 and will be taken up at a rate of about one mile a day. [SEN-5/17/1963]
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(12.2 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie Bridge No. 1). A junction switch was located here which went northwest down and across the shallow bay to the Buell & Hall/Hall & Munson sawmill at Bay Mills. There was a manually operated swing bridge in the long trestle to enable boats to enter the western end of the bay. The Bay Mills Branch was built in 1891 and abandoned by 1910. [CB/MIHX8]
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(12.26 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie Bridge No. 1). Originally called Superior, the town was changed to Brimley in March, 1896. The DSS&A depot was on the south side of the tracks on Depot Street east ofM-221 and just west of the switch to Bay Mills. The depot served Bay Mills and the Brimley region. [CB/MIHX8]