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Timetable: Grand Rapids Union Station - Main Line - Second Avenue Junction to Fulton Street
These lines were jointly used by Grand Rapids railroads to reach the passenger station and various freight houses along the line.
Station | MP from Toledo | Notes |
Fulton Street | 234.3 | Note |
Union Station North End | 234.2 | 6 tracks |
Union Station South End | 233.9 | |
Williams Street | 233.8 | FH=PRR |
Bartlett Street Junction | 233.7 | J |
Wealthy Street Junction | 233.6 | FH=PM Yard |
Sunnyside | J | |
Second Avenue Junction | 233.3 | J |
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 | FH=Freight House | 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
Notes
Permissions at Fulton Street were controlled by the signalman at Fuller. The north end of the depot had a passing track. The depot had a total of six through tracks. Williams Street had a switch tender.. It was the MC connection. Bartlett Street Junction was a connection to the PRR Plaster Track. Wealthy Street Junction had a switch tender and had a spur to the PM freight house. Sunnyside had a yard and connection to the PM to Chicago. Second Avenue Junction also had a yard and was the PM connection to Detroit. As of 1941.
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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