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Location: Mason, MI - Quincy Coal Dock
The Quincy Mine builds a larger coal dock on Torch Lake.
Notes
Unloaders have 120-foot towers traveling on a track 22 feet side and 300 feet long running the entire length of the shed. [CRR]
Time Line
1902. The new dock, unloader and storage are completed.
1902. The Q&TL constructs a one-mile extension to reach the new coal dock, with a switchback being needed to bring the railroad down to the coal dock on the lake. The line uses a 630 foot trestle, part timber and party steel, supported on 240 concrete peers. [CRR]
1945-1947. The coal dock at Mason is dismantled. [CRR]
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