Timetable: MCRR - Midland Branch - Bay City Junction to Midland

This was a MC branch line from Bay City to Midland. Passing siding capacity in 44' car lengths.

Station MP from Bay City Notes
Bay City (East Side) 0.0  
West Bay City 1.0  
BC & BC Junction 1.6  
Hecla Junction 3.5  
Beadle Mine 5.5  
Handy Brothers 6.0  
Bay Junction ~6.7  
Monitor  7.1   
Bangor 8.0  
Wolverine Mine 8.5  
Colfax 9.0  
Coryell - Hecla Junction 10.0   
Auburn  11.0  P17
Rooney 12.0  
Fisherville  13.0  P6 
Flajoles 15.0  
County Line  15.9  P3 
Colden 16.0  
M&H Crossing xMH   X J 
Midland  19.6  P29 
     
Mine Branch - South off Midland Branch   [USGS] 1919
Bay Junction ~6.7  
Mine (Frankenlust Twp. Sec. 2) ~12.2  

Notes: BC & BC Junction was an abbreviation for "Bay City and Battle Creek Junction", referencing the original incorporator of the branch.

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

[REF] = [ETT-1897-11] + other sources.


Time Line

1897. This branch scheduled two daily except Sunday round trip passenger trains from Bay City to Midland and back, via B.C. & B.C. Junction. These trains travelled the route in 1 hour and 5 minutes. [ETT-1897-11]

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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