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Timetable: Arcadia & Betsey River Ry. - Main Line - From Arcadia to Henry
This railroad was originally a logging line, but ran mixed trains. Info is from the Michigan Rail Guide for 1918.
| Station | MP from Delta Switch | Notes |
| Arcadia | 0 | |
| State Road | 1.4 | f |
| Sorenson | 3.5 | f |
| Malcom | 6.7 | |
| Butwell | 8.1 | f |
| Saile | 10 | |
| Grovers Lake | 11 | f |
| Humphrey | 13.5 | f |
| Springdale | 14.7 | f |
| Henry x=AA | 17.3 | X/I |
| Copemish | 21.0 | J-M&NE |
Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | EH=Engine house | f=flag stop | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard
Notes
[REF] = 1918 Michigan Rail Guide and [COP-1901-0504]
Time Line
1901. The Arcadia & Betsey River railroad runs one round trip mixed train (passenger and freight) between Arcadia and Copemish daily. The train stops five times, with six other trains as flag stops. The trip takes almost two hours, in each direction. [COP-1901-0504]
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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