Location: Grand Rapids, MI - Division Street Tower

Division Street Tower was the crossing of the Pere Marquette main line in downtown Grand Rapids and an interurban electric line. This was a PM-staffed tower, 24/7.


Notes


Time Line

1914. The PM installed an electro-mechanical half-interlocker at this location in 1914, with eight mechanical levers and 4 electric levers. [TSE-1/1915] Like many other street railway crossings, the crossing had signals on the PM and derails on the street railway.

1927. Leverman in this tower were paid 54¢ per hour.

 

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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