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Timetable: Copper Range Railroad - Painesdale branch
This was the line from Painesdale to Mill Mine Jct.
Station | MP from Maas | Notes |
Mill Mine Jct. J-Main Line, Freda Branch | 0.0 | X/I J |
South Range | 1.1 | |
Baltic Junction | 1.3 | J |
Trimountain | 3.0 | |
Painesdale | 4.71 | |
Ricedale (new) J-Main Line | J | |
Key: C=Coal | D=Open during day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | EH=Enginehouse | J=Junction | | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
[REF] = COPR timetable + [MRL] + additions.
Time Line
1901. This line was built from Mill Mine Junction to serve the area mines around Painesdale. [MRL]
1913. The line was extended and became the new main line from Mill Mine Junction to McKeever. The old main line was removed. [MRL] See the main line timetable to view the extension.
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