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Station: Horrigan, MI (Crawford County)
Horrigan was a station on the Michigan Central's Mackinaw Branch, about five miles south of Grayling. It is near the current location of the forest products plants on Four Mile Road served by the Lake State railway.
Image info: The MC Horrigan station in a 1918 railroad evaluation photo. [CMUL]
Notes
The Lake State has a local yard here, both north and south of Four Mile Road. A yard switcher services 4-5 large customers here. The yard job also goes to Gaylord several days each week to serve a scrap metal dealer and the LSRC's transload facility.
Time Line
1917. The MC had an operator/clerk here during the day shift. [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