Station: Baltic, MI

Baltic Location was the townsite near the Baltic Mine, north of Trimountain in Houghton County. It was a station on the Copper Range new main line south of Painesdale Junction.


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Time Line

1933. July 25. Nicholas Paduan, head linesman for the Copper Range company, was killed and two others were injured Sunday when a Copper Range railroad motor car jumped the tracks and turned over near the No. 2 mine shaft at Baltic. The injured were Padaun's son, James, 15 and John Verrier, a lineman of Houghton. The coroner said the accident was caused by rocks which had been placed on the tracks, presumably by children at play. [IDG-1933-0725]

 

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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