Timetable: Bessemer Branch (Negaunee) CNW/DSS&A Joint Line

This branch was a double track line built from Negaunee to the Teal Lake area mines, specifically to the Hartford Mine and Cambria Mine. It was known on the C&NW as the Bessemer Branch, not to be confused with the DSS&A Bessemer Branch in the Gogebic County. The branch had a wye for turning locomotives east of the Cambria mine. The joint agreement for operation of the line with the DSS&A was approved in 1895 but the line may have been built earlier. A joint agreement to serve the Hartford mine was made in 1903.

Station MP from Negaunee Notes
Junction - Negaunee 0.0 J ST
Hartford Mine   Y Yard
Cambria Mine   Y Yard
     

Key: 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 | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | ST=Switchtender | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Source = [CNWV]


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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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