Timetable: Copper Range Railroad - Senter branch

This was the line from Point Mills Jct. to Senter.

Station MP from Maas Notes
Point Mills Junction 0.0 J
Senter 6.2  
DuPont explosive plant    
     

Key: C=Coal | D=Open during day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher |  EH=Engine house | 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

References: COPR timetable + [MRL] + [CRR] + additions.


Notes

Senter was named in honor of John Senter, a longtime Copper Country explosive salesman. [CRR]

Also known as the Point Mills branch.

Traffic was expected to be light and 3-degree grades and 12-degree 30-foot curves were allowed. The largest bridge was a 63 foot pile trestle.


Time Line

1909. The Senter Branch is built by the Copper Range railroad from Point Mills Junction to Senter, the location of a new dynamite plant under construction by the DuPont Company. [CRR]

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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