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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Paw Paw Sub - Lawton to South Haven via Hartford
This was a branch line running from Lawton via Paw Paw and Hartford to South Haven. Station hours from 1946.
Station | MP from Paw Paw | Notes |
Lawton | J | |
Paw Paw | 0.0 | |
Wilbey | ||
Kirby | ||
Lawrence | 8.3 | |
Hartford xPM | 14.7 | DN I |
Toquin | J | |
Covert | 22.5 | |
Packard | ||
Fruitland | ||
Cableton | 29.5 | J |
South Haven | 30.5 | J |
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
Notes
Line from Lawton to Paw Paw not in operation in 1948.
Cableton had a 3 mile long spur to a power plant.
Time Line
1932. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: PM from Paw Paw to Lawton. [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