Timetable: Manistee & Luther Railroad - Main Line - East Lake to Hoxeyville

This is a single track line.

Notes:

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 | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | 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] = [MRL] plus additions.

Time Line

1904. May 1. E. A. Ferguson, an employe of the M&L was compelled to flee for his life from an enraged "she" bear yesterday, and not very many miles from the heart of Manistee. The train crew of a westbound M&L train observed two bear cubs near the track about eighteen miles from Eastlake, between Filer pine and the Jones farm.They stopped the train and with the assistance of the train crew rounded up the two cubs and put them on the cars and left for Eastlake.

Considerably in the rear of the train, the telegraph line man was inspecting the wires and poles from his railroad velocipede. Mother bear had returned and finding the cubs gone was in no sweet temper. At the site of the man her wrath blazed forth, crashing through the brush she started after the swiftly moving velocipede. Ferguson realized the danger and put every ounce of muscle in an effort to distance the bear. The bear occasionally left the track to look for the lost cubs in the brush and he soon left her far behind. The cubs are now enjoying the hospitality of the train's engineer and fireman in Manistee. [DFP-1904-0702]