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Timetable: C&NW - Choate Branch - Watersmeet to Choate
The C&NW Choate Branch was built north from Watersmeet by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad beginning in 1887 and reached Choate in 1891. This was a logging spur, 23 miles in length. For many years, there was speculation that the line would be continued by the successor C&NW to reach Ewen or even the copper range in Houghton, to compete with the DSS&A or Milwaukee Road. But this never materialized.
The line was abandoned and removed in 1941. [MRL]
| Station | MP from Milwaukee | Notes |
| Watersmeet | 0 | C D J T W X Y Yard |
| (Crossing) xCNW | 0.3 | X |
| Croziers Mill | 3.6 | |
| Interior Junction | 8.0 | J=Interior branch 1 mile. |
| Barclay | 12.0 | |
| Paulding | 14.6 | |
| Craigsmere | 17.9 | J=Robbins Branch 3.4 miles |
| Sandhurst | 21.1 | J=Radford Branch - 2.6 miles |
| Choate | 23.1 | |
Key: C=Coal | D=Open during the day | DN=Day and night | G=Gates | H=Half Interlocked | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | S=Scales | T = Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
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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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