Location: Lake Mine, MI

Lake Mine was a small train order station on the Copper Range Railroad, about two miles north of McKeever. There was a Copper Range railroad wye here and a branch north to Lake Mine.

Notes

The Ellis Spur, to the Ellis Lumber Company, branched north off the COPR main line at Lake Mine for three miles. The local train would push empty flat cars from McKeever to the siding, and then return to McKeever. North of M-26 on this branch was an engine house and mill yard. The branch existed between 1928 and 1936, and was scrapped in 1938. [MIS-2022-W]

Time Line

1905. The Copper Range railroad builds a 16' x 24' water tower here.