Station: Sallings, MI

Sallings was located on the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw railroad (later MC/NYC) about three miles south of downtown Gaylord. This was originally a village called Bagley and then renamed to Sallings in 1899. The Salling Hanson Lumber Company was active in this area. [MPN]

Sallings was a junction point where MC forest lines served eastern Otsego County with the Bagley Branch diverging from the main line here. In the 1980’s, it was the dividing point between state-owned rail and the Detroit & Mackinac trackage when the D&M operated this line after it was sold to the state by Penn Central. The railroad had a 1,904' passing siding here in 1911.

Image info: The old freight station at Sallings, in a railroad valuation photo from 1918. [CMUL]

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