Timetable: D&M - Cleveland Branch - Tower to End of Rail

This was a forest branch line off the northern division, southwest of Tower In Cheboygan county.

Station MP from Tower Notes
Tower  0.0  
Wolverine Branch Junction  6.5   
End of rails  11.5   
     

Key: D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | EH=Enginehouse |  | J=Junction | LB=Liftbridge | 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] = From 1908 guide and [DMAR]


Time Line

1901. Tom Finan, a prominent mill man of Tower and formerly of Manistee, fell between the cars when attempting to board a train at the Cleveland branch this morning and the wheels of the caboose passed over both legs below the knees. He was a once brought to Onaway and taken to the hospital where it was found that both legs were broken and the right one crushed so badly that amputation was necessary. [DFP-1901-0504]

1907. The railroad adds 2.2 miles of track to the Gilcrist Branch off the Laugh Branch, on the Cleveland Branch this year.  They also remove two miles of the Lobdell & Bailey branch from the Cleveland Branch. [DMAR-1907]

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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