Under Re-Construction
ABRR Ticket
This is a ticket for the Arcadia &
Betsey River Railway. Note the
stops along the way between
Arcadia and Copemish.
This exhibit includes what we
know about a few of those stops:
Arcadia:
The Start of the Line
Sorenson:
Vegetable Processing
Malcolm:
The Old Pickle Station
Saile:
Another Burmeister/Iverson
Station
Henry:
Connections to Other Railroads
Copemish:
Still More Connections
Caption
Aerial View
This photo shows a northwest
view of the Arcadia Furniture
Company factory.
The East End of the Furniture
Factory
About a hundred years ago, if
you were to walk west on Lake
Street and around the Company
Store, you would see this
passenger car on a siding next to
the waiting room.
BluePrint of Waiting Room
and Railroad Office
The top of the picture shows the
buildings in the Arcadia
Furniture Factory. The bottom
shows a blow-up of a portion of a
blueprint for the northeast
corner of the Arcadia Furniture
Company's factory in Arcadia,
Michigan.
Sorenson Station in winter about 1918
Sorenson Station was located near the west line of Pleasanton and Arcadia townships. Byron
Burmeister operated the buying station with George E. Iverson as his agent and later partner. --
Postcard Photograph. Photographer Unknown.
Another View of Sorenson
Station
This is Phyllis Iverson at
Sorenson Station circa 1920.
Phyllis was born in 1918.
Excerpts from an interview with Mary Alice Grossnickle
Sorenson Station Ad
Steam Log Loader and Flatcar
-- Photo courtesy of Jack
Simmons
Caption
Malcolm
Malcolm Station Buildings
Malcolm Station was located
near the southwest corner of
Glover's Lake Road and Keillor
Road. -- "Malcolm: A Station on
the Arcadia and Betsey River
Railway: Manistee County, MI"
by John W. Martin, PE
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The Station at Saile
This is another station erected
by Byron Burmeister and
managed by George Iverson. It
was located along the A&BRR
about ten miles east of Arcadia
just west of the stop at Glovers
Lake.
Caption
The Station at Henry, Michigan
This is a photograph of the
station at Henry as it looked on
July 6, 1930.
Caption
1903 Map Showing Henry's
Strategic Location
The blue box shows the location
of the station at Henry where
three railroads met: the Arcadia
& Betsey River Railway from the
west, the Pere Marquette
running north and south, and the
Manistee & North Eastern. --
1903 plat map of Springdale
Township in Manistee County
Michigan
Caption
The Depot at Copemish
-- Postcard Photograph.
Photographer Unknown
1903 Plat Map Close-up of
Copemish, Michigan
The Arcadia & Betsey River
Railway came in from the
northwest on the same rail as
the Ann Arbor Railroad. Note
the depot at the intersection
with the Manistee and
Northeastern rail line. -- 1903
plat map closeup of Copemish,
Michigan
