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Location: Calumet, MI - Waterworks Spur Crossing (H&TL/HCSR)
This was the crossing of the Hecla & Torch Lake railroad Water Works spur with the Houghton County Street Railway in the village of Calumet. It was not interlocked.
This was also noted in 1933 as a crossing of the H&TL and the Copper Range railroad. It was a stop and proceed crossing.
Notes
Time Line
1902. The railroad commission describes this as an "unimportant" crossing being used only or carrying timber to the C&H Mine and to the Copper Range railroad. The crossing was approved without an interlocking device being required. [MCR-1903]
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