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Station: Branch, MI
This station was likely also to be known as River Branch Junction, which was about two miles east of Kaleva on the Manistee & North Eastern. A M&NE branch left the line here to go east to Messick, Buckley and Grayling.
Notes
The C&O had a hot box detector at Loomis, which was read by the Saginaw dispatcher. [DH]
Time Line
1931. The MPUC approves the discontinuance of Branch as an agency station. The railroad will maintain the station as non-agency with a caretaker. [MPUC-1931]
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