Station: Ossineke, MI

Ossineke was a station on the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad 15 miles south of Alpena near the shore of Thunder Bay.

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Time Line

1899. The long dock of the Alger, Smith & Co. at Ossineke was destroyed by fire and a quantity of cedar also burned. Fritz & Sanborn lost $6,000 worth of cedar with an insurance of $4,000. The dock cost $15000 and was 600 feet long. [AML-1899-1107]

1892. Two escapees from the Alpena County jail were captured here by employees of Albert Pack's Hubbard Lake Railroad camp. After being pursued through the woods, they surrounded at a farm near here. The Sheriff, his deputies, the Alpena city marshal and a posse of policemen, armed to the teeth, buckled on their armor and set out together for Ossineke while the men remained surrounded at a nearby farm. [DFP-1892-0217]

1927. This station was staffed with an operator during the day shift. [ETT-1927]

1940. Three women suffered minor injuries today when a freight train collided with a derailed gas-electric coach on the D&M at Ossineke. The injured were taken by ambulance to Alpena General hospital. Other passengers had gone to a near-by grocery store while workmen were getting the coach back on the tracks. It became partially derailed as it backed into a siding to pick up a refrigerator car. State police said there was clear visibility and they did not know why the freight engineer had not seen the derailed coach and stopped. [BCE-1940-1202]