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Station: Baltic, MI
Baltic Location was the townsite near the Baltic Mine, north of Trimountain in Houghton County. It was a station on the Copper Range new main line south of Painesdale Junction.
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1933. July 25. Nicholas Paduan, head linesman for the Copper Range company, was killed and two others were injured Sunday when a Copper Range railroad motor car jumped the tracks and turned over near the No. 2 mine shaft at Baltic. The injured were Padaun's son, James, 15 and John Verrier, a lineman of Houghton. The coroner said the accident was caused by rocks which had been placed on the tracks, presumably by children at play. [IDG-1933-0725]
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