Timetable: Milwaukee Road - Channing and Ontonagon Subdivision

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Timetable: Milwaukee Road

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Channing and Ontonagon Subdivision, Superior Division (O&B)

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Stations	MP	Open	Siding	Notes
	from Channing	as of 1938	Car capacity	See below for key.
Channing Jct. with the Champion Sub.	0.0	Continuous	Yard	BCEJKPRSWY "CH"
Spur 234	2.2
Kiernan	4.1		64	Other car capacity: 10 P "KN"
Kelso Junction Jct. with the Iron River Sub.	7.8			Other car capacity: 18 JPR "KO"
Ponca	10
Mitchels Spur	13.8
Spur 247	15.1
Balsam Crossing of the C&NW Crystal Falls-Amasa Branch	15.6			Other car capacity: 11 "BA".
Warner Mine Junction	17.3
Amasa	20.2	8:00a-5:00p 8:20p-9:00p	37	Other car capacity: 20 "AM" PW
Triangle Ranch	21.6
Spur 255	24.6
Spur 257	26.7
Spur 259	28.7
Diana	29
Park Siding	33.2		50	Other car capacity: 9 P "RK"
Spur 265	34.2
Spur 269	37.2
Tunis	39.2		28	P "S"
Keating's Spur	39.8
Perch Creek Spur	40.6
Spur 274	42.7
Sidnaw Crossing of the DSS&A	46.9	9:00a-6:00p	70	Other car capacity: 60 CGKWY "HI"
Stanton's Spur	51
Spur 289	57.1
Frost	58.1		45	P "FS"
Frost Junction Jct. with the MILW Branch to Kenton	59
Findley Junction	63
Britton	65.2			W "BN"
Pori	66.0		30	P "RI"
Rousseau	68.0			Other car capacity: 15 "RU"
Spur 299	68.3
Wasas	70.3			Other car capacity: 18 "WS"
McKeever Jct. with the Copper Range	73.1			KPY "MC"
Mass	73.6	8:00a-5:00p	26	Other car capacity: 8 P "GD"
Riddle Junction Jct. with the MR Keweenaw Bay-Mass Branch	75			The branch was abandoned in 1925.
Brady	78.2			Other car capacity: 18 "DY"
Rockland	80.9		14	"KD"
Spur 318	84.8
Wood Siding	87.4			Other car capacity: 10 "WG"
Ontonagon Jct. with the White Pine Branch	92.5	7:00a-4:00p	Yard	BCJRWYZ "GN". See Note.


Key:	Single Track:		Double Track:

Symbol Codes:

B = Bulletin board
C = Coal
D = Drenching Tower
E = Refreshments
G = Railroad Crossing with gates
I = Interlocking
J = Junction
K = Connection-foreign road
M = Crossing with signals

O = Oil
P = Dispatcher's phone
R = Train register
S = Standard clock
T = Turntable
W = Water
Y = Wye
Z = Track scales

Notes:

Ontonagon: The White Pine Branch was built during World War I to haul copper ore. After the war, it was used to haul logs. The Greenwood Lumber Company ran west from Ontonagon to the Union River near the Porcupine Mountains from World War I until 1930. The Thompson-Wells Company ran Southwesterly from Ontonagon during the 1920's. The Gorman Lumber Company ran easterly from Ontonagon to log 30,000 acres but was closed in 1948. The wye at Ontogagon was constructed in 1925 to accommodate larger engines that would not fit on the turntable. Larger engines were needed because of the heavy log business off the White Pine line. The branch still exists as far as the Smurfit-Stone paper mill. [GB]

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