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Station: Rockwood, MI
Rockwood is a city on the south edge of Wayne County at the Huron River. Rockwood was a station on the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line at milepost 31.2. There was a small yard (Rockwood Storage Yard) here as well as leads to the Rockwood Silica Company. [EFI]
Photo Info: The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line switches the Ottawa Silica Sand Company at Rockwood in 1976. [Emery Goulash photo, Charles Geletzke Jr. collection]
Notes
Time Line
1873. The railroad builds a 240 foot, wood bridge over the Huron River here. Four spans of 60' each. [MCR-1872]
1917. The NYC (southbound main line) had a water station here. [ETT-1917]
1917, The MC had an agent-operator here around-the-clock. [TRT]
Industry
- International Minerals & Chemical Corporation (D&TSL)
- Rockwood Silica Company (D&TSL)
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