Timetable: Pere Marquette - Port Huron Sub - Port Huron to Hoyt (via Marlette)

This was a Port Huron & Northwestern branch line (narrow gauge) from Port Huron to Hoyt (Saginaw) via Marlette. It was later changed to standad gauge. Station hours and passing siding capacity from 1942.

Station MP from Saginaw Notes
Saginaw 0.0  
Hoyt Tower  2.2  DN 
Junction  
Gera  11.2  D P76 
Tuscola    
Vassar xMC  19.4  D I P116 
Great Lakes    
Juaniata 25.4  P96 
Mayville  31.2  D P52 
Silverwood    
Clifford xGTW 39.9  D X P72 
Marlette  45.2 
Index     
Brown City 54.2  D P97 
Valley Center     
Melvin  60.9 
Yale  66.1  D J P78 
Junction (Power Plant)   
Avoca 73.5  D P72 
Abotsford     
Tappan Tower xGTW 86.1  DN I
Port Huron 90.1  DN J T Yard
     

 

Note 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


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Time Line

1916. This division is generally laid with 56-67 lb. rail  [MCR-1916]

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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