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Location: Alabaster Junction, MI
Alabaster Junction was a location on the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad (later D&M, Lake States) about three miles southwest of East Tawas in Iosco County. A branch left the main line here to the Alabaster gypsum quarry along Lake Huron.
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A wye was located here and the D&M installed a tall radio tower within the wye for communicating with trains between Bay City and Alpena.
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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
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