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Timetable: D&M - Alabaster Branch - Alabaster Jct. to Alabaster
This was a branch to the alabaster quarry south of Tawas. This was operted for many years as the Erie & Michigan Railway & Navigation railroad.
Station | MP from Waveland | Notes |
Alabaster Jct. | 0.0 | |
Alabaster | ~4 | |
Quarry | ~4 | |
Note:
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
January 22, 1897. The Detroit & Mackinac railway company has about decided to build a track from Tawas to the plaster beds of Alabaster. The spur will be nearly five miles long. The construction of the road all depends on the rate of freight that can be secured by the plaster company. The question is now under consideration. [DFP-1897-0122]
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