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Location: Griffith, IN
Griffith was a location on the Michigan Central's Joliet Branch, and was an interlocked crossing of the EJ&E, C&O/Erie, and GTW. It is located at S., Broad Street south of East Main Street, two miles east of Hartsdale, IN.
Notes
The Griffith Train Museum is located here.
Time Line
1915. The GTW had a 120 car passing track here. [GTOS-1915-1102]
1917. The GTW had an agent here during the day as well as telegrapher/operators around the clock. Telegraph call was "JC". [TRT]
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