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Timetable: Copper Range Railroad - Edgemere Branch
The Edgemere branch ran 1.19 miles from Edgemere Junction to Edgemere, off the Freda branch to a location along Lake Superior. Edgemere was likely the location of a mill.
Station | MP from Edgemere | Notes |
Edgemere Jct. J-Freda Branch | 0.0 | J |
Edgemere | 1.19 | |
Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | 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 ETT-1930] plus additions.
Notes
This short branch was complicated and steep, with a switchback serving the lower levels of the Trimountain mill. [CRR]
Time Line
1901. This branch line is built. [MRL]
1971. The branch is abandoned along with other COPR lines. [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