- Details
- Hits: 863
Location: Lake Mine, MI
Lake Mine was a small train order station on the Copper Range Railroad, about two miles north of McKeever. There was a Copper Range railroad wye here and a branch north to Lake Mine.
Notes
The Ellis Spur, to the Ellis Lumber Company, branched north off the COPR main line at Lake Mine for three miles. The local train would push empty flat cars from McKeever to the siding, and then return to McKeever. North of M-26 on this branch was an engine house and mill yard. The branch existed between 1928 and 1936, and was scrapped in 1938. [MIS-2022-W]
Time Line
1905. The Copper Range railroad builds a 16' x 24' water tower here.
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