Timetable: Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique - Main Line - Traverse City to Northport

Station open times from 1906.

Station MP from T. C. Notes
Traverse City 0.0 D
Hatch's Crossing  5.7 
Heinforth  7.7   
Bingham  9.6   
Keswick  11.5   
Leelanau  13.3   
Sutton's Bay  16.7 
Omena  23.7   
"OA" Siding  24.2   
Northport  29.2 
     

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

References: TCL&M Railroad timetable No. 1, December 30, 1906.


Notes

One first class passenger train each way, daily except Sunday in 1906. No. 90 leaves southbound from Northport at 8:00 a.m., arriving at Traverse City at 10:05 a.m. No. 91 leaves Traverse City northbound at 3:40 p.m., arriving at Northport at 5:30 p.m. 

Standard clock and bulletin books were located at the Traverse City Telegraph office. Registering stations were at the Traverse City telegraph office, at the M&NE telegraph office in Traverse City, at the Hatch's Crossing telegraph office, and at the Northport Telegraph office. Yard limit boards in place at Northport.  Trains must have train orders or clearance to leave terminals. M&NE tracks used under the authority of the M&NE timetable. Employees are governed by the rules of the GR&I Ry. for the government of the Transportation Department.

For passenger trains, Hatch's Crossing, Bingham, Sutton's Bay, Omena and Northport were stops. The other stations were flag stops.

Time Line

1906. December 30 This railroad was in receivership of the Union Trust Company. J. H. P. Hughart (of the GR&I) was the Agent for the Receiver.

 

 

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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