Timetable: North of Portage Lake (MR/H&C) - West End Bridge to Allouez

This line was built by the owners of the Osceola and Tamarack mines and was later sold to the Mineral Range/DSS&A railroads. This line became the MR Lake Linden branch.

Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | EH=Engine house | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Lift bridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Round house # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

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Time Line

1900. September 15. Extra crews were working and despite the rain are making good progress in the work of rebuilding the Mineral Range railroad trestle over the Quincy & Torch Lake railway. It was partly demolished by a railway rock train Thursday. It is probable the Franklin and Arcadian mines will be able to resume stamping Monday or at latest on Tuesday. They necessarily stopped work when the supply of stamp rock was cut off. Quincy mine was delayed only a few hours while four wrecked cars were removed from the track. [DFP-1900-0916]

1904. May. The Mineral Range railroad has its crews at work on the cut-off from its Laurium branch to the Centennial mine on the Kearsarge lode. This cut-off will be only a few hundreed feet long and will be completed this week. It has a diamond crossing across the Copper Range road a short distance from the mine. It will be used principally for hauling rock from the mine to the mill at Grosse Point, according to the contract entered into between the railroad and mining company. The construction of this cut-off will relieve the Mineral Range of congestion of freight, principally Oregon and Washington fir and pine, which has been accumulating in the Calumet yards for some time. This building material is intended for construction purposes at the Centennial's Kearsarge location. Several carloads of lumber are here ready for delivery, and more is to follow. [DFP-1904-0530]

1910. The Mineral Range, north of Hancock, is to be re-equipped for heavier service. The reason is simply to provide against delays and accidents, particularly during the heavy snows of the winter season. The work is to be done by the Mineral Range railroad and orders have already been placed for a large quantity of 80-pound steel rails.

The same policy of strengthening the trackage will be carried out upon the MR line which connects the Centennial, Allouez and Franklin mines with their stamp mills at Point Mills, and with the completion of these plans the entire Mineral Range trackage north of Portage Lake will be equipped with 80-pound steel rails, the lines connecting the Tamarack and Osceola mines with their stamp mills on Torch Lake having already been laid with this weight.

Six new locomotives of 100 tons each will be bought and a large number of new rock cars are to be placed in the Mineral Range general service. [CN-1910-0422]

1927. The Mineral Range has made application to the ICC to abandon a branch line nine miles long between St. Mary's Junction and Point Mills in Houghton County. The branch was built in 1899 to carry copper rock from mines which are now closed or using other facilities. The line is said to have deteriorated to such an extent that it is unsafe for operation. [LDP-1927-0615] The ICC approved on September 7.

1945. SNAPSHOT. This line was freight only, with no scheduled passenger trains. It had no open stations in 1945. It was called the Lake Linden line in 1945. [ETT-1945]