Station: South Branch, MI

South Branch was settled about 1887 and originally called Hunt and also Southbranch. In 1893 it was renamed South Branch. The town is in Ogemaw County, just west of the Iosco County line and was originally on the Detroit & Mackinac railroad's Rose City branch.

Image info: A view of logging operations in South Branch, along the D&M line. [CMUL]

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1912. June. A wrecking train backed its pile driver into a washout on the D&M railroad at South Branch Tuesday morning. It required the services of two wrecking trains, two section crews and two train crews to free it and in the meantime passengers walked a plank across the washout to get from one train to another. [LSJ-1912-0605]