Station: Peshims, MI

Peshims, in Chippewa County, was located on the DSS&A main line two miles east of Soo Junction. It was located on the south side of what is now highway M-28 just east of McLeod ditch. [CB/MIHX8]

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1966. August 26. A truck driver was killed and 15 units of a 62-car freight train were derailed and plowed up acres of ground when a heavily laden transport truck smashed into a Soo Line train at Peshims' Crossing, about 17 miles east of Newberry at 3:30 a.m. today. The accident was only a few miles east of Soo Junction. The train was headed west from St. Ignace. The truck smashed into the side of the freight at about the 17th car. Most of the derailed cars were empties, of the type used for hauling pulpwood. The truck had washers and refrigerators for Soo Coin; paint for Sherwin Williams, merchandise for Wards and Sears, all in Sault Ste. Marie.  Louis Suvarte, car foreman from Marquette, said a 60-ton wrecking crane and other needed equipment left Marquette at 9:30 a.m. today for the scene. He said it would take several hours to clear the wreckage and repair the track.

Armand Tremblay of Brimlet, section foreman for the Soo Junction area, said that the train pulled into Soo Junction with about 16 cars and the engineer reported that he had lost the rest of his train at the crossing at Peshims, which was once a thriving lumbering community. The body was removed to Quinnel Funeral Home in Pickford. [SEN-1966-0826]