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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Buchannan Branch - Benton Harbor to Buchannan
This was a single track branch line between the above points. This was one of four railroad lines extending south from the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph port area (two PM, one MC and one Big Four).
| Station | MP from Ben. Harbor | Notes |
| Benton Harbor | 0.0 | T |
| Napier | ~3.0 | |
| Scotdale | ~7.0 | |
| Royalton | ~10.5 | |
| Winchman | ~12.5 | |
| Berrien Springs | ~14.5 | |
| Jaquay | ~17.5 | |
| Buchanan | ~23.0 | |
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
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Time Line
1881. It costs 40¢ to go from Buchannan to Berrien Springs on the narrow gauge. [NWM-1881-0928]
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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