Location: North Bay City, MI - D&M/Interurban Crossing

This was a crossing of the Detroit & Mackinac Main Line and the Interurban line from Bay City to Wenona Beach. This may have been on Patterson Road near the D&M North Bay City yards.

Notes

The crossing was apparently not interlocked, at least in the early days. It was the location of several collisions.

Time Line

1901. A D&M northbound train caught Wenona Beach car No. 43 at a crossing on the outskirts of West Bay City yesterday afternoon, cutting off the front portion of the trolley car. Motorman Doupount and one passenger got out uninjured, but it was a narrow escape. The Beach car had just reached the crossing when the train whizzed past. [PHTH-1901-1108]

1907. January 28. Harry Rivers, a motorman on the Wenona Beach line of the street railway, was killed instantly and Mrs. John Corvern of Wenona Beach was injured this morning in a collision between a beach car and the northbound D&M passenger train, at the crossing of the two lines. Rivers slowed his car down, as is usual, when approaching the crossing, but did not bring it to a full stop.

The passenger train, running about 30 miles an hour, struck the forward end of the car, the vestibule and front trucks having crossed the railroad track. The car was thrown to one side. When Rivers was pulled out of the wreck iut was found that his neck had been broken. Mrs. Corvern was seated in the rear end of the street car and sustained serious bruises, but will recover.

The conductor in charge of the street car says the car was running slowly enough so that he had left it and was running forward to flag the crossing. He could give no explanation of the accident. The D&M yard tracks were only partially occupied by other cars at the time and the passenger train could be seen coming some distance. Several similar accidents, without fatal results, however, have occurred at the same point. [DFP-1907-0129]