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Durand, MI - Coaling Tower
This is the former Grand Trunk Western coaling tower at Durand, located in the yard 1/4 mile north of the depot. The dock was built in August, 1886 and still exists today.
Photo info/credit: Photographed in 1986, one hundred years after it was built and later abandoned. [Charlie Whipp]
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