Timetable: Pere Marquette - Fremont Sub - Berry to Big Rapids

This branch line extended originally from Saginaw west via Edmore to Big Rapids and then Muskegon. This portion of the line is from Berry (near Muskegon) to Big Rapids. It was cut back to Freemont.

Station MP from Muskegon Notes
Berry  5.1   
Twin Lake  ~12  
Holton  17.4   
Bruswick  19.8   
Reeman  ~22   
Freemont  24.7  P16 
Wooster  ~31   
White Cloud xPM 36.1 
Woodville  ~46   
Hungerford  ~50   
Big Rapids xPRR ~59   
     

 

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

Source: [MRL]+employee time tables.


Notes


Time Line

1922, April. The PM has ordered the material for the installation of telephone train dispatching circuits, including their line from Berry to White Cloud, 36 miles. [RSG-1922-04]

1926. The MPUC gives permission for the PM to sell or abandon their branch between White Cloud to Big Rapids. [MPUC-1926]

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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