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Station: BCG&A Junction, MI
When the Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena came to Alpena around 1917, they crossed the D&M's North Division about 1/4 mile north of the north wye switch at Alpena Junction, a place called BCG&A Junction. The Boyne City line then crossed the D&M's spur to the Huron Portland Cement Plant about midway in what was later to be the D&M Alpena Yard and then curved around into the old downtown near Fletcher Paper.
Notes
This was not an interlocked crossing and it may have been put in as early as 1912 as it appears that the BCG&A built west from Alpena and east from Gaylord at the same time.
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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