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Timetable: NYC - Grand Rapids Branch - Grand Rapids to White Pigeon
Station | MP from Grand Rapids | Notes |
Grand Rapids | 0.0 | DN W Yard TC=SX |
Freight Station | FH | |
Shaumet xGRI | Target | |
Eagle Mills | ||
Drawbridge | SB | |
Lamar (Wentworth) | 3.4 | D P65 TC=W |
Byron Center | 11.9 | D P21 TC=OU |
Herps | ||
Dorr | 17.8 | D |
Hilliards | 21.5 | D |
Hopkins | 25.4 | D |
Miner Lake | ||
Allegan | 32.7 | D |
Abronia | ||
Otsego | 42.5 | D W P38 TC=XN |
Plainwell | 46.5 | D P53 TC=P |
XX Tower xGRI | 46.6 | I |
Argenta | P26 | |
Cooper | P26 | |
North Yard | 57.7 | D Yard TC=SY |
Kalamazoo xCKS | 58.7 | I |
Kalamazoo xMC | 57.8 | DN I TC=BO |
Gibson xGRI | 58.4 | Target |
South Yard | 60.4 | D W P57 Yard TC=DK |
Portage | 64.8 | |
Schoolcraft | 71.5 | D P43 TC=SH |
CF Tower | 71.6 | DN I TC=CF |
Flowerfield | D W P17 TC=FD | |
Moore Park | D P55 TC=MP | |
CP Cowling | ||
Three Rivers | 83.8 | D W I P47 TC=MI |
VJ Interlocking Tower xMAL | 85.0 | J TC=VJ |
Florence | P27 | |
Constantine | D P50 TC=CR | |
White Pigeon | J DN W Yard TC=GN | |
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
Notes
Shaumet: Crossing had a pole target in 1915.
Drawbridge (over Grand River near Lamar): Governed by semaphore type signals located 175' north and 645' south of the bridge. Not interlocked.
Kalamazoo CK&S Crossing: Interlocked.
Moore Park: Later called CP Park by Conrail.
CP Cowling: This was the northbound entrance to the NS passing track at Moore Park.
White Pigeon: When the NYC upgraded the Air Line from Jackson to Elkhart, they rerouted the Kalamazoo Branch at Elkhart to remove a curve here.
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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