Location: Albion, MI (Houghton County)

Albion was the townsite for the Albion Mine. This was a station on the Houghton County Traction line, 1.2 miles north of Red Jacket.

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1931. The MPUC considers a request by the Copper Range railroad, the Calumet & Hecla railroad and the Houghton County Traction company for authority to dismantle and discontinue the overhead trestle of the traction company, known as the Albion Trestle, and to substitute a grade crossing of the traction tracks over the COR and C&H railroads and dismantle the overhead trestle.. This is in Section 13 T56N-R33W.

The MPUC notes that the trestle agreement dates back to October 14, 1903 at the expense of the MRRR and COPR. Later the MRRR abandoned and removed its track under the trestle. The C&H railroad used the MRRR right-of-way under the trestle. Service by the COPR is rarely more than one train a day and some days none; servicre on the CYH is small and infrequent. The traction company maintains hourly service. The trestle requires prompt and extensive repairs to render it safe. The trestle is parallel and contiguous to Highway US-41. The trestle obstructs views from US-41.

In view of the information as set forth in said application, said applicants have entered into a contract, a duplicate original of which is filed here with, which is made subject to the granting of the authorization herein requested. The said agreement having been entered into on the 29th day of June, A. D. 1931, by and between the Copper Range Railroad Company, the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company and the Houghton County Traction Company and filed with said application for the consideration and approval of this Commission. After due consideration of said application, together with said agreement, which agreement specifies as to the apportionment of the cost and expense for the dismantling and removing of said trestle, together with the cost and expense for constructing and maintaining of said grade crossings and the manner in which trains and cars of said applicants
would be operated over said grade crossings, as set forth in paragraph 8 of said agreement, namely: “It is agreed between the parties and by each of them that for the time the said crossings begin to be used by the traction company and so long as said crossings or either of them continue in use, each of them will cause its agents, conductors, train crews or motor men to stop its engines, trains or cars, before entering upon or crossing the track of the other and to personally satisfy them. selves that the track of the other may be safely crossed. In the event that under this provision an engine or train of the Copper Range Railroad or of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Railroad Company and a car or train of the Houghton County Traction Company, shall be stopped at the same time, the car or train of the Houghton County Traction Company shall first proceed over the crossing.

The MPUC approved the arrangement and removal of the trestle. [MPUC-1931]