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Station: Pori, MI
Pori was a station on the Milwaukee Road Ontonagon branch 20 miles northwest of Sidnaw in Houghton County.
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Time Line
1894. September 8. A forest fire derails an engine, killing 1 person.
1939. Logs are being loaded onto railroad cars at Pori, Ontonagon county, for shipment to the Ford Motor Co. at Iron Mountain. [BHN-1939-1006]
1943. The MILW had a railroad telephone line for railroad employees in the section house here. [ETT-1943]
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