Station: Cooks, MI

Cooks was a sawmill community founded about 1883 in southwest Schoolcraft County. [MPN] Cooks was located on the Soo Line railroad (later WC/CN) about 12 miles southwest of Manistique.

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Time Line

1917. The MStP&P had an agent here on the day shift. [TRT]

1956. The Leon Bancroft house in Cooks was destroyed by fire starting from a defective stovepipe. It is adjacent to the Soo Line. [EDP-1956-0123]

1959. The Soo Line track three miles west of Cooks at Milepost 273 was cleared for traffic last night after a second derailment on the line in a week. The first one was at Blaney last Wednesday. Only one car derailed leaving 44 cars in front of it and 19 cars and a caboose behind. A wrecking crew from Gladstone in charge of George Hansen of Minneapolis, assistant supervisor of freight cars, cleared the track yesterday. A flange on the wheel of the car broke and pounded 55 lengths of track before the train was stopped. The box car was laden with sulphur. There were no injuries. The wrecking crew was brought from Blaney, where it had been clearing up the track after the mishap there, to clear the track at Cooks. There were 13 pulp cars and two sulphide cars derailed in the Blaney pileup. [EDP-1959-0206]

1963. May. In a hearing before the MPSC, the Soo Line requests to serve freight patrons at Cooks, Gulliver and Engadine from a service center at Manistique, instead of through local station agents. The railroad's station system was created 75 years ago to meet 19th century needs, with only primitive transportation and communication. Lock City transportation company facilities (in Sault Ste. Marie) will be used to provide pickup and delivery. A traveling agent system will be provided to substitute for the offices now operated. An enterprise telephone number will be provided at Engadine for toll-free shipper use. The proposal is similar to that of the New York Central in lower Michigan, now in use. [EDP-1963-0524]