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Location: Isle Royal Mine Docks, MI
The Isle Royal marine loading docks were on the DSS&A Houghton Branch, about three miles south of Houghton. This was at mileost 46.1 in Section 5 of T54N-R33W. [DSSM]
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1931. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission approves a plan by the Isle Royale Copper Company to cross by trestle the tracks of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway at DSS&A Survey Station 2459 plus 49.6 near Granville, Portage Township, Houghton County; providing that said trestle be constructed according to C&H Consolidated Copper Company Plan 9420. [MPUC-1931]
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