Station: Tobico Beach, MI

Tobico Beach was a station on the Detroit & Mackinac railway main line north of Bay City and about 3 1/2 miles south of Linwood Park. It is on the shore of Saginaw Bay, one mile northwest of the Kawkawlin River inlet.


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Time Line

1912. Ice driven by a high wind from Saginaw Bay out onto the tracks of the Detroit & Mackinac railroad about ten miles north of Bay City caused the derailing of a passenger train and the serious injury of the engineer and fireman. The road at that point runs close along the shore. A gale from the east forced huge masses of ice out of the bay, covering the tracks to a depth of eight feet. Into this obstruction the train crashed. Two coaches were derailed but none of the passengers was injured beyond a sev ere shaking up. [Sebewaing Blade-1912-0418]

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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