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Station: Rapid City, MI (Kalkaska County)
Rapid City was a junction on the Chicago & West Michigan (later PM) branch to Petoskey in northwest Kalkaska County. It was settled about 1891. It was called Van Buren and later changed to Rapid City in 1895. A PM branch line also went southeast from here through Kalkaska and into Missaukee County.
Photo info: Top, an early view of the PM depot at Rapid City with approaching passenger train. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, a Pere Marquette locomotive in front of the Rapid City depot. Note the water tower on the left. Around 1910.
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Time Line
1931. The MPUC orders PM to maintain an agency station at Rapid City. [MPUC-1931]
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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