Timetable: Pere Marquette - Fostoria Branch - McGrew Junction to Fostoria

This was a short branch line off the PM main line near McGrew Yard northeast to Fostoria. Station hours as of 1942. Also known as the Flint River Division in 1898.

Station MP from McGrew Notes
McGrew Junction (aka Flint River Junction) 0.0   
(Crossroads Village)     
Genesee  8.2  
Rogersville (aka Rogers) 10.6   
Otisville  14.4   
Otter Lake  19.0  
North Lake     
Fostoria  24.1  
     

Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Engine house | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Lift bridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swing bridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard


Notes

[REF] = [ETT-1898][ETT-1942] plus additions.


Time Line

1898. This line had one round trip mixed train (passengers and freight cars) except Sunday. The following stations had day time agents on duty: Otisville, Otter Lake and Fostoria. [ETT-1898]

1920. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission orders the PM to put a mixed train on duty daily except Sunday between Fostoria and Flint, via McGrew Jct. including train times (leaving Fostoria at 7:00 am, arriving at Flint at 8:45 am, and leaving Flint at 2:55 p.m. and arriving at Fostoria at 4:30 p.m. [MPUC-1920]

1949. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: PC from Marathon to Otisville. [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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