Timetable: Detroit & Mackinac Ry. - Curran Branch - Hardy to Curran

Open stations as of 1922.  Single track branch line.  A map in the 1922 employee timetable indicates that this branch went past Curran to Byers and Beevers. It also had two small branches leaving the line, one near Curran and one near Byers. This branch was originally part of the AuSable & Northwestern railroad, a logging line.

Station MP from Toledo Notes
Hardy 0.0  
Code  2.3   
Curran  4.4   
Byers     
Beever     
     

Key:  C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open during the day | DN=Day and night | EH=Enginehouse | H=Half Interlocked | I=Interlocker | J=Junction | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | RH=Roundhouse #stalls | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Sources: [ETT] = 1922 D&M Employee Timetable plus additions.


Notes


Time Line

1927. The railroad had one round trip, 2nd class train in each direction (#54 and #55) on Tuesday and Friday. This was likely a mixed passenger/freight train. [ETT-1927]

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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