Timetable: MCRR - Pigeon River, Richardson, Black River, Qigley Branches - Trowbridge to Cornwell

This was a forest branch which left the MC Mackinaw Branch at Trowbridge, east.

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 | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = 1912 MC station list.

Notes

"Young" on the Pigeon River Branch was in Otsego County. [ITP1] 

Time Line

1911. July. At Richardson, on the Pigeon River branch of the MC, a bridge and 40 freight cars were destroyed this afternoon by fire. [DFP-1911-0712]

1911. July. Conductor Spencer and a logging train crew are cut off on the Pigeon River branch of the MC by burned bridges and walls of flame. Between 50 and 60 flat and box cars on various logging branches are reported destroyed. Many of the lumbering camps in this part of the state are so situated and surrounded by flames that escape for the occupants seems almost impossible. [FLJ-1911-0712]

1911. July 12. On the Pigeon river branch of the MC, a logging crew is reported cut off by burned bridges. [EDP-1911-0713]

1949. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: MC Spur line to the Pigeon River in Cheboygan. [DFP-1949-1009]