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Location: Foremans, MI
Foremans was located on the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad at milepost 423.0, north of Walloon Lake Junction. The location also had a spur known as the Bear River spur.
From this location, the GR&I was double tracked north through Petoskey to Ko-go-mic, the junction of the line northwest to Harbor Springs.
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Time Line
1903. Foremans also had a 3-stall brick roundhouse which was built in 1903 and used princiipally for commuter trains. These trains extended south to Walloon Lake and north to Harbor Springs and Alanson.
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