Timetable: M&NE - Main Line - Manistee to Traverse City

Passing siding information from 1941.

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 | 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

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Time Line

1888. Early yesterday the Manistee & Northeastern railroad company commenced laying track past the Sorenson boarding house in this city. As soon as Mrs. Sorenson discovered the workmen laying the track, she, with revolver in hand, went to the workmen and demanded that they desist. They refused, whereupon she ordered a rocking chair to be brought out and, planting it across two ties, she occupied the chair throughout the day, all night and until 5 o'clock this evening, preventing the men from laying the rail, at which hour she was arrested and placed in jail, charged with obstructing the building and operating of railroads. [DFP-1888-1012]

1889. The first passenger train was run over the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad on Sunday, last. The train consisted of the new engine and tender, a combination, smoking and baggage car and one coach. The engine and coach arrived at Manistee from the east on Thursday, this being the second of the company's engines to arrive. [DFP-1889-0115]

1889. Michael Downing and Dennis Charboneau, workers in a lumber camp on the M&NE railroad, laid down on the track while intoxicated and were both cut to pieces by a passing train. [PHTH-1889-0408]

1891. The M&NE is graded into Traverse City and cars will connect Manistee and the bay metropolis by the first of June next. [LCP-1891-1231]

1892. Railway postal service has been established on the line of the M&NE between Lake Ann ane Manistee. [DFP-1892-0524]

1901. Forest fires are raging in the Traverse City area. Large quantity of cedar ties of the M&NE railway are threatened and the woods on both sides of the track and about Carp Lake resort are ablaze. There has been no rain and the woods are dry as tinder. The M&NE sent out gangs of section men this afternoon from both directions along their line to fight the fire and farmers and lumbermen in the vicinity are assisting. [DFP-1901-0430]

1933. The M&NE today asked the ICC for authority to abandon 39 miles of line between Kaleva and Solon after experiencing $25,000 in annual deficits. Continuity will be maintained over operating on the PM Kaleva to Traverse City branch. [LDN-1933-0804]

1934. June. The abandonment from Kaleva to Solon was authorized by the ICC. [SJHP-1934-0619]