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.

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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1920. November. A contract has been let to John Marsch of Iron Mountain to construct about a mile of track connecting the wye track at the Carpenter mine with the main line of the St. Paul just east of Fortune Lake (Carpenter Junction). The grading work will commence at once as it is designed to have the tracks ready for use when shipping season opens in the spring. When this track is completed the St. Paul ore trains will not enter Crystal Falls at all. Ore from the Odgers, Tobin, Carpenter, Dunn, Balkan and Judson mines will be hauled over this connection line to the main line and shot straight for Escanaba. In addition t the connecting track the company has secured sufficient room along this connecting line to show for several sidings where the ore trains will be made up. The new line will cross the county road a few rods east of where Dan Ross' house stands. Its building is made necessary by the fact that the present ore line of this company crosses above the Bristol pit and the recent cave necessitates the abandonment of the line. [DD-1920-1116]