Timetable: D&M - Tubbs Branch - Millersburg to Tubbs Branch Jct.

This was a branch south into the forest near Millersburg built in 1907 [DMAR=1907]. The Tubbs branch junction appears to be just west of Case. [ITP-3]

Key: D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | EH=Enginehouse | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Source: = From a 1908 railway guide.

Time Line

1907. The D&M builds the Tubbs Branch, a distance of 5.6 miles. [DMAT-1907]

1911. September 12l. Circuit Court Judge Emerick of Alpena fined the D&M railway and the Lobell & Churchill company of Onaway $100 for not obeying an order of the court. They were served with an order July 21 not to remove any rails from the Tubbs Branch near Onaway, pending a decision of the state railroad commission to determine the rights of the parties in the branch. The order had been issued at the instance of the Fletcher Paper Company. The Lobdell company did not remove rails from the roadbed or right of way after being served with the order, but it did remove rails which had been piled just outside the right of way. [SAG-1911-0912]

1916. April 3. The Fletcher Paper Company of Alpena won its suit today to compel the D&M railroad to relay the so-called Tubbs branch tracks, on which the company shipped its logs to the paper mills at Alpena. The United States Supreme Court affirmed the action of the Michigan Supreme Court in issuing a mandamus to relay rails and accept shipments offered it on this spur (ordered by the Michigan railroad commission in 1911. The Tubbs branch spur was built by and for the Churchill Lumber company, but certain service rights were acquired by the Fletcher Paper company without the knowledge of the D&M according to their assertion. [DFP-1916-0404]

April 3, 1916. D&M Must Relay Spur Track for Alpena Paper Mills. The Fletcher Paper company of Alpena won its suit today to compel the Detroit & Mackinac railroad to relay the so-called Tubbs branch tracks, on which the company shipped its logs to its paper mills at Alpena.

The [U.S.] supreme court affirmed, with costs, the action of the supreme court of Michigan in issuing a mandamus to compel the D&M to re-lay the rails and to accept shipments offered it on this spur by the Fletcher company according to an order issued by the Michigan railroad commission in 1911.

The Tubbs branch spur was built by and for the Churchill Lumber company, but certain service rights were acquired by the Fletcher Paper company without the knowledge or consent of the D&M, according to the latter's assertion. The D&M contended that it was justified in taking the rails up when the Churchill Lumber company requested that this be done, having no more lumber of its own to ship. [DFP-4/4/1916]