Station: Tobico Beach, MI

Tobico Beach was a station on the Detroit & Mackinac railway main line north of Bay City and about 3 1/2 miles south of Linwood Park. It is on the shore of Saginaw Bay, one mile northwest of the Kawkawlin River inlet.

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Time Line

1912. Ice driven by a high wind from Saginaw Bay out onto the tracks of the Detroit & Mackinac railroad about ten miles north of Bay City caused the derailing of a passenger train and the serious injury of the engineer and fireman. The road at that point runs close along the shore. A gale from the east forced huge masses of ice out of the bay, covering the tracks to a depth of eight feet. Into this obstruction the train crashed. Two coaches were derailed but none of the passengers was injured beyond a sev ere shaking up. [Sebewaing Blade-1912-0418]