Timetable: Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad - Main Line - Detroit to Lima

This view of the DT&I main line is after they constructed their Malinta cut off west of Maybee to Malinta 30 miles southwest of the Michigan state line. The cut off removed a number of meandering extra miles as well as slow curves through the City of Adrian. After the cutoff was put in service, the DT&I discontinued using the DT&M east of Tecumseh and the former main line became the Tecumseh Branch. This was a single track main line.

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line (D&TSL) had trackage rights from Detroit to FN (Trenton). 

Station MP from Detroit Notes
Detroit (Delray) 0.0 DN Yard
Jefferson Avenue (xDSR xMC)   X I 
Rouge River Drawbridge    SB I 
Short Cut Channel Drawbridge (xMC)   BB I 
South Yard (Great Lakes Steel) (xMC) 3.2  W C Y X J
Wyandotte (xMC) 7.4  H
Ford  8.5  P25 
Trenton (xDTSL xMC) 11.1  I DN P7  
D&I Junction 15.2  J Y 
Flat Rock Yard  17.2  W C T S DN Yard 
Flat Rock  18.2  D P57 
Carleton (xPM) 23.5  I DN P102 
Maybee  31.6  D P57 
Diann (xAA) 39.8  I DN P112 
Petersburg Junction 44.4  J
Riga (in Michigan) (xNYC) 51.8  IA 
Champion (in Ohio) (xOM) 60.7  W IA P100
Fulton 67.9  P97 
Delta  74.3  P55 P100 Y J 
Maumee  84.5  W P111 
Malinta (xNP) 90.3  I DN J P55 P100 
Hamler (xB&O) 96.8  I DN
Gallup  99.7  P19
Prentiss  102.5  P18 
Leipsic (xC&O xNP) 106.0  I DN W Y 
Ottawa 112.1  D P30 
Putnam  115.4  P82
Columbus Grove  119.7 
C. G. Tower (xAC&Y) 120.7  I DN P83 
Cairo  125.7  P70 
Morris (xNP) 131.0  X Yard 
Sugar Street (xPRR) 132.0  I DN Yard 
Lima  132.7  D C W Y S Yard 
     

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 | HI=Half Interlocker | I=Interlocker | IA=Automatic interlocking | 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

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Notes


Time Table

1897. September. Local railroad circles are reported to be agitated over the attempt of the Detroit & Lima Northern to obtain a right of way through the factory district of South Detroit. It is said that the Wabash, Grand Trunk and Flint & Pere Marquette roads are trying to obtain a right of way through the same district for the purpose, as they claim, of making another belt line around the city, and thus saving the switching charges by competing with the Michigan Central's belt line. A conference between magnates of the three roads on this subject is supposed to have taken place during the visit of Sir Charles Rivers-Wilson, president of the Grand Trunk to this city recently, but no details of that conference have so far become public. Some of the leading manufacturers in the district mentioned are said to have been won over to the side of the three roads.

The Detroit & Lima people say that the opposition of the other roads is for the purpose of keeping out a rival that will be formidable to them. They decline to say who is furnishing the money for the extension of their road, but declare that Calvin S. Brice, who was reported as being behind them, is not in the deal. [DFP-1897-0909]

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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