Location: Mount Clemens, MI - GTW - Rapid Railway Crossing (Cass Avenue)

This was the crossing of the Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk Junction railroad and the Rapid Railway system on Cass Avenue in the City of Mt. Clemens, Macomb County.

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Time Line

1912. The railroad commission approves plans for a half interlocking and derailing switch and signal system at this crossing. [MCR-1912]

1930: March 20. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission grants the GTW the ability to remove the interlocked crossing of their line here with the Rapid Railway, on account that the Rapid Railway has discontinued operations. The Rapid Railway has also removed their overhead power line. [MPUC-1930]

INTERLOCKING ON THE DETROIT UNITED RAILWAYS. The Detroit United Railways are building an interlocking plant on the Rapid Railway System at the crossing of the Grand Trunk Western on Cass avenue in the city of Mt. Clemens, Mich. The plant contains a Saxby & Farmer machine with 14 working levers in a I6 lever frame, and will be completed and put in service during this month. [TSE-2/1912]