Timetable: Grand Rapids Union Station - Main Line - Second Avenue Junction to Fulton Street

These lines were jointly used by Grand Rapids railroads to reach the passenger station and various freight houses along the line.

Station MP from Toledo Notes
Fulton Street 234.3  Note 
Union Station North End 234.2  6 tracks 
Union Station South End   233.9   
Williams Street  233.8  FH=PRR
Bartlett Street Junction  233.7 
Wealthy Street Junction  233.6  FH=PM Yard 
Sunnyside   
Second Avenue Junction  233.3 
     

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 | FH=Freight House | 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

Permissions at Fulton Street were controlled by the signalman at Fuller. The north end of the depot had a passing track. The depot had a total of six through tracks. Williams Street had a switch tender.. It was the MC connection. Bartlett Street Junction was a connection to the PRR Plaster Track. Wealthy Street Junction had a switch tender and had a spur to the PM freight house. Sunnyside had a yard and connection to the PM to Chicago. Second Avenue Junction also had a yard and was the PM connection to Detroit. As of 1941.


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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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