Location: Salzburg, MI - Crossing (Interurban/Coal Siding)

This was a crossing of the Bay Cities Consolidated Street Railway company (on Center Street) and a Salzburg Coal Mining Company spur, about 115 feet from Fifth street and in the line of Center street in the village of Salzburg. [MCR-1903]


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Time Line

1902. The railroad commission orders installation of a half interlocking appliance at this crossing with signals set against the electric railway and derailers on the spur tracks. Described as about 115 feet north of Fifth street and in the line of Center street in the village of Salzburg. Signals set against the electric railway line and derailers on the (steam railroad) spur tracks. [MCR-1903]

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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