Location: Carpenter Mine Junction, MI

Carpenter Mine Junction (editor name assigned) was a wye and associated tracks of the C&NW Shafer Branch and the MILW Carpenter Branch. It was located in Section 36 T43N-R34W in Iron County, one mile west of the Tobin and Carpenter Mines.

Carpenter Mine Junction The Shafer Branch (originally C&NW) and the Dunn Branch (originally C&NW), crossed over the MILW Carpenter Branch here. All three lines became joint trackage. The newer MILW Carpenter Spur crossed the C&NW Dunn Branch in an underpass south of the wye. [MILV] As of 1918.

Map info: A MILW valuation map from 1918 shoring the wye and underpass crossing. Top of this map is west. [MILV]


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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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