Location: Tully Mine Tower, Stambaugh, MI

Tully Mine Tower was in southeast Stambaugh, and was an interlocking tower which was likely at the crossing of the Milwaukee Road Iron River Branch and the C&NW mining branch to the Tully/Bristol Mine.

According to a 1917 Brotherhood of Telegraphers agreement, the MILW had a leverman on the day shift at this crossing.


Notes

This would have been at 46.076555, -88.620084, on the MILW main line about 1/3 of a mile east of Stambaugh Avenue. It was about one mile southwest of Bates interlocking tower.


Time Line

1944. This crossing continued to exist as of 1944. [MILW-ETT]

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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