Location: Woodside, MI

Woodside was a junction one mile northeast of Dollar Bay. The Mineral Range/DSSA line from Archadian mines crossed the Copper Range (overhead on a on a 358 foot bridge) and the DSS&A  line here, and then joined the branch to Point Mills. 


Note

The Acadian branch also crossed under the Quincy & Torch Lake railroad one mile north of Woodside. The Q&TL went overhead on a 266 foot long bridge. [DSSM]

This entire area was on a steep hillside which climed from about 100 feet above the Lake to 401 feet above near old Arcadian mine, a rise of 300 feet in five miles.


Time Line

1928. The Arcadian branch from Arcadian Junction to Woodside was removed in 1928. [DSSM]

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

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