Timetable: Highland Park Branch - Union Belt of Detroit - P-Company Junction to Highland Park

The Union Belt had several sections. This line left the PM main line at P-Company Junction (in Springwells/East Dearborn) and went north and east to Highland Park.

Key: C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Engine house | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | S=Scales | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

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Notes

P-Company Junction: 42.337093, -83.179990

Fullerton was a stop and proceed crossing. 

The Livernois crossing was an automatic interlocking.

Time Line

1930. October. W.A. Wardrop, assistant vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, announced Tuesday the completion of new engine storage facilities that will expedite service as well as reduce operating expenses of the PRR on the east leg of the Fullerton avenue wye in Detroit. At a cost of $38,401, the railroad has installed coal and ash handling machines, buildings for machinists and hostlers, a brick oil and sand house, and an ice house on its property, in the use of which the Pere Marquette and Wabash railroads will participate as joint members of the Detroit Union Belt line.

The coal and ash track can accommodate a dozen locomotives and has a possible ultimate development for a maximum of 20. There are quarters for the yardmaster, locker and wash rooms for trainmen, supply rooms for machinists and hostlers and an oil and sand house. The engines dispatched from this point will serve a territory of approximately 37 miles. [DFP-1930-1015]