Timetable: PRR - Main Line - Grand Rapids to Cadillac

This was the original Grand Rapids & Indiana route to Mackinaw City. Station hours and passing track capacity in 1998 based on 40' cars.

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

* = This crossing of the Paris & Pere Marquette (logging) railroad existed from 1884 to 1889.

Muskegon Junction is the branch to Muskegon.

South Rockford had a spur to the Rockford Paper Mills. The paper mill sits on the original right of way from Belmont to Rockford. The right of way was changed to the present alignment in 1899 to eliminate six bridges over the river.

Howard City was a junction with the PM Greenville Branch and the PM Edmore Branch.

Milton Junction (later Orno) is a junction with the GR&I Manistee Branch.

Osceola Junction is a junction to the Olga Branch.

At Tustin the Michigan East and West crossed the GR&I on an overpass.

Cadillac: The Cadillac Belt Railway connected 

Source = Employee timetables plus [MRL] 

Notes

Time Line

1922, February 22. A snow storm described as "never been known in the territory affected", swept over central Wisconsin and western Michigan for three days. Signal control wires and high tension feeders were torn down and telegraph and telephone communications was completely at a standstill for a week or more. Ice on wires was 1/2 to 2" in diameter. Damage was extensive between Grand Rapids and Cadillac. Western Union had 4,000 poles broken down. The GR&I between Howard City and Cadillac, 351 poles broke, 1,178 cross arms were broken and there were over 1,500 wire breaks. [RSG-1922-04]