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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Fostoria Branch - McGrew Junction to Fostoria
This was a short branch line off the PM main line near McGrew Yard northeast to Fostoria. Station hours as of 1942. Also known as the Flint River Division in 1898.
Station | MP from McGrew | Notes |
McGrew Junction (aka Flint River Junction) | 0.0 | |
(Crossroads Village) | ||
Genesee | 8.2 | |
Rogersville (aka Rogers) | 10.6 | |
Otisville | 14.4 | |
Otter Lake | 19.0 | |
North Lake | ||
Fostoria | 24.1 | |
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
[REF] = [ETT-1898][ETT-1942] plus additions.
Time Line
1898. This line had one round trip mixed train (passengers and freight cars) except Sunday. The following stations had day time agents on duty: Otisville, Otter Lake and Fostoria. [ETT-1898]
1920. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission orders the PM to put a mixed train on duty daily except Sunday between Fostoria and Flint, via McGrew Jct. including train times (leaving Fostoria at 7:00 am, arriving at Flint at 8:45 am, and leaving Flint at 2:55 p.m. and arriving at Fostoria at 4:30 p.m. [MPUC-1920]
1949. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: PC from Marathon to Otisville. [DFP-1949-1009]
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