Timetable: Ann Arbor Railroad - Main Line - Toledo to Owosso - 1st Division

The Ann Arbor Railroad main line was broken up into three divisions between Toledo and Frankfort.

Station MP from Toledo Notes
Toledo (Cherry Street) 0.0 D TC=S Y
Boulevard xTT 2.5 DN X I
Hallett xTT 4.1 DN X I
Alexis xMC xNYC 4.9 DN TC=N, X I
Temperance 9.3 D TC=FN
Samaria 11.5 P110
Todd's ~14.7 168' side track.
Lulu 16.7  
Federman xAA 18.6 X I P32
Diann xDTI 20.5 DN TC=MX X I P95
Dundee xLSMS 22.8 D TC=RN P48 X
Azalia 26.8 P35
Milan xWAB 30.9 DN TC=MI P95 X I
Urania 36.5 P87 (Ypsi State Hospital siding)
Pittsfield xNYC 40.5 P43 X I
Ferry 44.5 DN TC=MA P79 Yard
Ann Arbor 45.3 Yard
Bell 46.9 P29
White Star Track 47.9 409' side track
Barton 50.4 1200' side track
Osmer 50.9 P94
Whitmore Lake 56.9 P39
Hamburg 59.4 P38
Lakeland xGTW 61.8 D TC=HU X I P17
Chilson 66.9 W P66
Annpere xPM 72.0 DN TC=HO X I
Howell 73.9 D TC=H. P83
Oak Grove 80.2 P46
Cohoctah 84.5 P81
Byron 88.9 D TC=BY P31
Emergency xGTW 94.8 P30 X (Not interlocked)
Durand xGTW 95.5 DN TC=DU X (Not interlocked)
York xGTW 96.2 DN TC=RA P26. X (Not interlocked)
Vernon 96.7 P16
Corunna 104.0 XH spur, P26
Owosso 107.1 DN TC=DI Yard X (Not interlocked)

Key:  C=Coal | D=Open during the day | DN=Day and night | H=Half Interlocked | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | S=Scales | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF]=AARR Employee Time Table 106, September 27, 1936 plus additions.


Notes

This line was double tracked from Boulevard to Alexis (via Hallett) with automatic block signals. [ETT-1942]

This line had automatic block signals from Milan north to Ferry Yard in Ann Arbor, used to coordinate passenger special trains to the University of Michigan football stadium, which was next to Ferry. [ETT-1942]


Time Line

1895. October. The Michigan Railroad Commission approves the use of the Ann Arbor road of the airline division of the Chicago & Grand Trunk between Hamburg and Hamburg Junction at a cost of $2,000 annual rental, with the understanding that the C&GT will give the Ann Arbor road a line of its own between these two points. [LSJ-1895-1002]

1900. Passenger Train SNAPSHOT:

  • Toledo to Frankfort - #1/4 - 1 round trip Daily xSun. Lv. Toledo at 7:30 am (12 hours)
  • Toledo to Cadillac - #3/2 - 1 round trip Daily xSun. Lv. Toledo at 3:30 pm (8 hours)
  • Toledo to Ann Arbor - #5/6 - 1 round trip Daily xSun. Lv. Toledo at 9:30 am (2 hours)

1942.  Ferry Yard in Ann Arbor had water and fuel available. [ETT-1942]

1942. The railroad operated one passenger train each way, daily except Sunday. Trains 51 (NB) and 52 (SB). They were scheduled to meet at Ashley, about 20 miles northwest of Owosso. [ETT-1945]

1969. This branch began handling Consumers Power coal to Essexville and Dow Chemical unit coal trains to Midland. The trains had been taken off their regular routing via the Penn Central Mackinaw Branch from Detroit to Saginaw following a sizable derailment on that line at Yates (between Utica and Rochester in June, 1968. The rerouted trains came up the AA to Owosso, and then up the PC to Paines. In time, the heavy unit coal trains began to erode the AA line as well and routing was temporarily changed to the GTW in 1975. The GTW took ownership of the PC lines upon the creation of Conrail. [MHS]

1976. April 1. The GTW bought the Ann Arbor right-of-way between Durand and Ashley on "Conrail Day". The GTW installed new switches off its line to access customers on the AA at Vernon and Corunna. The remainder of the line between Durand and San junction (by Legion Road) was abandoned except for the portion through Durand yard. That remnant was kept to just west of the I-69 overpass, but was cut back to just short of Lansing Road during an overpass replacement in the early 1990's. [Steve Burns]

 

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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