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  
Paw Paw  0.0   
Wilbey     
Kirby     
Lawrence  8.3   
Hartford xPM 14.7  DN I
Toquin   
Covert  22.5   
Packard     
Fruitland     
Cableton  29.5 
South Haven  30.5 
     

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

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