Timetable: MCRR - Main Line Western Division - Niles to Chicago

This is the original Michigan Central main line to Chicago, completed about 1852. Station hours and passing sidings (44' cars) are as of 1947.

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 | 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 | TP=Track Pan | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Notes

In New Buffalo, the PM crosses the MC on an overhead bridge.

[REF] = MC employee timetable #25 4/27/1947, plus additions.

Time Line

1873. The track of the MC between Niles and Galien is now laid with steel rails, and a smoother track cannot be found in the country. [NREP-1873-1106]

1880. A train of 22 cars passed over the MC going west, loaded with horses belonging to a Wayne county, Illinois man. Most of these were stallions of the Perchon Norman breed and purchased by him in England and Normandy and brought to this country for his own stock farm. Each car contained six horses, making 132 horses in all. [NDEM-1880-0821]

1932. Arthur Specht who was injured in an auto accident on US-27 north of Marshall, sustaining a fractured vertebra, was taken to his home in Chicago this afternoon. He made the journey on a cot placed in the baggage car of a MC train. [BCE-1932-1029] The double track is now completed the entire length through Berrien County. [DFP-1873-1107]