Location: Waverly Yard, Holland, MI

CO Waverly Yard OfficeOld PM Roundhouse at WaverlyWaverly Yard was the junction point off the Pere Marquette (later C&O/CSX) main line with a branch line north to Grand Haven and Muskegon. This became the PM's largest yard facility in Holland.

Photo Info: Top, the C&O Waverly Yard freight office in 1977. At one time, the operator's office on the right of the building contained an early centralized traffic control machine which controlled train traffic in this area. [Charles Geletzke Jr.] Below the old Pere Marquette roundhouse at Waverly in 2002. [Mark Andersen]


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Time Line

1930: The PM installs CTC at Holland, a GRS system controlling one switch and four signals. They also note a similar installation at Grandville. [RSC-1930]

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

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