Station: Fuller, Grand Rapids, MI

Fuller was the location of the crossing of the south/north Grand Rapids & Indiana and Pere Marquette railroads, and the east/west Grand Trunk Western railroad. This crossing continues to exist and is west of the river, north of downtown.

Photo Info: Top, a Chesapeake & Ohio switch engine takes scrap steel across the GTW diamond at Fuller in 1981. [Peter Ford]. 2nd photo, GTW 4931, a GP-9, pulls freight through Fuller in the mid-1970's. [Greg Bunce photo.] 3rd photo, another shot of the gate and signalman's shanty at Fuller in the winter of 1972-73. 4th photo, a early 1970's photo showing the crossing gates with reflector and red lamps, the train order signal and the operator's shanty. 5th and 6th photos, a GTW switch engine crosses the C&O and PRR at Fuller. Note the crossing gates across the two latter lines. Both north-south lines have train order signals, indicating that this is a staffed crossing. [Karl Miller photo, Marty Bernard collection]

Notes

For much of its history, Fuller was a non-interlocked crossing, instead using a gate with reflectors and lights which were controlled by the operator or train crew. Fuller is interlocked today. During PRR ownership, the operator at Fuller controlled much of the former GR&I north to Mackinaw City through the use of remotely controlled block stations.

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