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

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