Location: Saginaw, MI - Fifth Street Interlocking

PM Fifth Street Tower Saginaw, MIThe 1905 Annual Report of the Pere Marquette notes that a new interlocking plant was installed at this location. This was the west entrance to the Saginaw Yard just east of Potter Street station. This was not a railroad crossing, as such, but the tower controlled a number of crossovers and sidings, as well as the street crossing protection for Fifth Street.

In 1955, this tower was closed and it was remote controlled from the Washington Avenue tower. [SMA]

Photo Info: The Pere Marquette tower at Fifth Street in Saginaw MI in 1976. [Charles Geletzke Jr.]


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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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