Station: Remus, MI

PM Remus MI depotRemus was originally settled three miles west of its present site with a sawmill and called Bingen. It was moved here in 1869 to be on the line of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroad which had just come through Mecosta County. It was renamed Remus in 1890. [MPN]

Remus was on the PM line between Stanton and Big Rapids, about 20 miles southeast of Big Rapids. The town was also a junction point for a PM forest branch line east from Remus to Weidman in Isabella County.

Photo Info: Top, the PM depot at Remus. [Alan Loftis collection]


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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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