Timetable: Copper Range Railroad - Painesdale branch

This was the line from Painesdale to Mill Mine Jct.

Station MP from Maas Notes
Mill Mine Jct. J-Main Line, Freda Branch 0.0 X/I J
South Range 1.1  
Baltic Junction 1.3 J
Trimountain 3.0  
Painesdale 4.71  
Ricedale (new) J-Main Line  
     

 Key: C=Coal | D=Open during day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher |  EH=Enginehouse | J=Junction | | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = COPR timetable + [MRL] + additions.


Time Line

1901. This line was built from Mill Mine Junction to serve the area mines around Painesdale. [MRL]

1913. The line was extended and became the new main line from Mill Mine Junction to McKeever. The old main line was removed. [MRL] See the main line timetable to view the extension.

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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