Timetable: DBC&W Railroad - Main Line - Bay City to Port Huron

This was a single track main line. The DBC&W used the Pere Marquette line from Westover to the GTW Station. Siding information as of 1924.

Station MP from Bay City Notes
Bay City 0.0  
M C Junction  0.6  C Y Yard
Center Avenue xPM Belt Line 1.6  X/I
Quanicassee  11.4  P20
Akron xPM Branch 19.3  X/HI D W P25 
Caro xMC Caro Branch 28.2  X/I D W Y P35 
Daytona  34.4  P9 
Wilmont xPO&N Caseville Br. 39.3  X D C W P45 
Hemans  44.5  P30 
Decker  46.5  D P33 
Douglas Siding  48.6  P40 
Snover  50.6  D W P37 
Herrick  57.6  Y P48 
Sandusky  58.4  D W P24 
Watertown  63.6  P30 
Peck  69.4  D C W P340 
Roseburg  76.1  P23 
Fargo  83.6  P12 
Westover  97.3  J
GTW Tunnel Station     
     

 Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | EH=Engine house | HI=Half Interlocker | I=Interlocker | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Notes

[REF] = DBC&W timetable #21, 3/30/1924 and other sources.

Station hours are as of 1916. [MCR-1916]

Used joint trackage from Westover to Port Huron in 1924.

This railroad crosses six spur tracks of the Michigan Central railroad at Bay City. The crossings are protected by gates, normally against the traffic on said spurs. [MCR-1916]

The crossing at Wilmont is not interlocked. Stop and proceed for both roads. [MCR-1916]


Time Line

1916. This railroad runs three passenger trains daily round trip except Sundays. [MCR-1916]

1932. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: DC&S from Sandusky to Roseburg. [DFP-1949-1009]

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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