Timetable: KLS&C Railway - Main Line - Kalamazoo to South Haven

This was a single track line from Kalamazoo to South Haven, later taken over by the Michigan Central railroad. Station hours as of 1911.

Station MP from S Haven Notes
Kalamazoo  54.5  D C W Y P10
Oshtemo  49.5  P15 
Brighton  47.5   
Rix  46.5   
Walker  45.5   
Eassom     
Mattawan  41.5  P3 
Newbre  39.5   
Lawton  37.5  DN P100 
Paw Paw  32.5  D C W T P124 
Barrison  29.5   
Benway  29.0  P3 
Lake Cora  27.5  P10 
Lawrence  23.5  D P54 
Hartford (xPM)  17.0  DN I W Y P52 
Toquin (Paw Paw Lake Jct.)  12.0  Y P10 
Covert  8.0  D P33 
Packard  5.0  P4 
Fruitland  3.0   
Piano Factory Siding  1.0  P18 
South Haven  0.0  D C W T P36 
     

Notes: The Pere Marquette leased this line on April 15, 1907 to the KLS&C for a period of 25 years. [PMAR-1907]

At Newbre, trains must stop before passing under Michigan Central bridge.

Note Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Enginehouse | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Liftbridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swingbridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = XXXXXX plus additions.

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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