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Timetable: DT&I Railroad - D&I Dearborn Branch - D&I Junction to Fordson Yard
This was a double track branch line which was built by the Ford interests to give their Rouge works access to the DT&I near Flat Rock. For a short period of time, this branch was electrified. Many of the catenary posts remain along this route.
Station | MP from D&I Jct | Notes |
D&I Junction | 0.0 | J |
Penford (xPRR) | 6.0 | I DN |
Oakwood Junction (xWAB) | 10.3 | I DN |
M.C. Tower (Schaefer) (xMC) | 13.5 | I DN |
Rouge Yard | 13.6 | DN W Yard |
Fordson Yard | 15.3 | D W Yard |
Notes: In 1937 the speed of this branch was 60 mph for passenger trains, 40 mph for freight trains.
Note Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Enginehouse | HI=Half Interlocker | I=Interlocker | J=Junction | LB=Liftbridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swingbridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
[REF] = DT&I employee timetable #18, 2/14/1937, plus additions.
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