Timetable: Copper Range Railroad - Adventure Branch

This is a branch line from the main line just north of McKeever to Greenland and the Adventure Mine. 

Station MP from Maas Notes
Greenland Jct.  0 J to Greenland 
Adventure Mine 1.3  
Greenland  2.69  
     

Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher |  EH=Engine house | HI=Half Interlocker | I=Interlocker | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = COPR timetable plus additions.


Notes


Time Line

1901. The branch from Greenland Junction (near McKeever) to Greenland Mine, via the Adventure Mine, is built. [MRL]

1901. A branch of the Copper Range railroad was built in to the Adventure Mine from near Belt, about three miles distant, giving needed transportation facilities. [CHBK]

1939. The Greenland branch is removed. [MRL]

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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