Timetable: Pere Marquette - Saginaw Belt Line - West Belt Junction to PHNW Junction

This was a PM belt line around the west and south side of Saginaw. West Belt Junction was about 1/2 mile west of Mershon on the Ludington Subdivision. The line went south from there, crossing the MC/PM line at Fordney, then turning northeast and north along the river on the east side. A branch of this line also went east to the PM main line.

Notes:

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

[REF] = [MRL]

Time Line

1889. July 30. The latest improvement made by the F&PM company is a belt line which begins at Crow Island, circles about East Saginaw and Saginaw City, and with the Bay City extension gives direct track connection with eighty-five manufactories and indirect connection with twenty-two other manufactories. It has fifteen stations, one the Court street station, a very handsome and complete depot. A new iron bridge across the Saginaw River, at the southern border of the city, was built to accommodate the belt line. [DFP-1889-0730]