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.

Station MP from Trowbridge Notes
Trowbridge  0.0  
Smith's Mill  1.0   
Young  5.0   
Bank 6  7.5   
Needham  8.0  J J
Cornwell  10.0   
     
Richardson Branch    
Needham 0.0
Gilcrist  2.0 
Remick  2.5   
Page Branch Junction  4.5  J J
Steinhoff 5.0   
Caldwell  5.5  J
     
McDade Spur    
Gilchrist 0.0 J
Fanning 1.3  
     
Page Branch Junction  0.0 
Page  1.3   
Forest Junction  2.5   
     
Page Branch Junction   0.0
Scotts  0.8   
Foster  3.8   
     
Black River Branch    
Caldwell 0.0 J
Herrick 1.0  
Hardwood Lake 3.0  
Keogh 5.0  
Greens  6.0   
Hill 6.3 J
Hart 7.3 J
End of Branch 7.5  
     
Hill (Branch) 0.0 J
Markle    
Hendricks 3.0  
     
Quigley Branch    
Hart 0.0 J
Whalen 1.0  
Lentz 2.0  
     

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


Time Line

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]

 

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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