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Station: Lupton, MI
Lupton was settled about 1880 as Lane Heights and then Lane. The Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Rose City branch came through here about 1893 and the town was renamed Lupton. [MPN]
Image info: Top, Detroit, Bay City & Alpena engine No. 8 has come to Lupton for some occasion which has brought out village residents. The DBC&A was sold to the Detroit & Mackinac about 1895, but their engines may have retained their markings after the change. [CMUL]. 2nd image. A atlas map of Lupton around 1903. Road names have changed.
Notes
Lupton was about five miles east of Rose City on the D&M's Rose City branch.
Time Line
1924. In the Matter of the Application of the Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company for Authority to Make Its Stations Aloha, Tower, Saganing, Long Lake and Lupton Non-Agency Stations was approved. D-1955. September 15, 1924.
Application having been filed herein by the Detroit and Mackinac Railway Company by Henry K. McHarg, Jr., Vice President and General Manager, for leave to change the character of service given at the above named stations from agency stations to non-agency stations; and the same having been brought on for hearing and the testimony taken in relation thereto having been duly considered;
It is HEREBY ORDERED by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission, That said Detroit and Mackinac Railway Company be and it is hereby authorized from and after October 1st, 1924, to change the character of Service given at its stations at Aloha, Tower, Saganing, Long Lake and Lupton, from agency stations to non-agency points.
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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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