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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Port Austin Sub - Bad Axe to Grindstone City (via Port Austin)
This was a single track branch line extending north from Bad Axe to Grindstone City. Station hours are from 1942.
| Station | MP from Bad Axe | Notes |
| Bad Axe | 0.0 | D W |
| Rapson's Siding | 3.5 | P6 |
| Clarks | 5.4 | P9 |
| Fillion | 6.4 | P9 |
| Creevy | 7.3 | P4 |
| Kinde | 9.4 | D P24 |
| Johnson | 12.4 | |
| Port Austin | 16.0 | D W C T P23 |
| Point Aux Barques | 18.2 | P6 |
| Eagle Bay | 20.2 | P15 |
| Grindstone City | 21.4 | D Y |
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
[REF] = [MRL]
Time Line
1898. This line had two passenger trains daily except Sunday from Palms to Grindstone City, via Bad Axe. The following stations had day time agents: Bad Axe, Filion, Kinde, Port Austin and Grindstone City. [ETT-1898]
1931. In responding to a complaint, the MPUC orders the PM to operate regular train service Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week between Bad Axe and Grindstone City. [MPUC-1931]
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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