Location: Mason, MI - Quincy Coal Dock

The Quincy Mine builds a larger coal dock on Torch Lake.

Notes

Unloaders have 120-foot towers traveling on a track 22 feet side and 300 feet long running the entire length of the shed. [CRR]

Time Line

1902. The new dock, unloader and storage are completed.

1902. The Q&TL constructs a one-mile extension to reach the new coal dock, with a switchback being needed to bring the railroad down to the coal dock on the lake. The line uses a 630 foot trestle, part timber and party steel, supported on 240 concrete peers. [CRR]

1945-1947. The coal dock at Mason is dismantled. [CRR]