Timetable: MCRR - Bagley Branch - Salling Junction to Johannesburg

This was a forest branch line in Otsego County

Station MP from Salling Notes
Salling Junction 0.0   J
Trombley  4.4   
McGraw Junction ~6  
Johannesburg Junction  7.2   J
Deming ~8  
Crowleys ~10  
Chamberlain  12.5   
Tyrus ~12.8  J
Nugent  ~13   
Johannesburg  13.8   
     
Tyrus (Branch) 0.0  J
Cobb (End)    
     

Notes: In 1925, the Bagley Branch had one second class mixed train (actually a round trip) which began at Gaylord, leaving Salling Junction at 7:16 am and arriving at Johannesburg at 7:55 am. It turned around and left Johannelsburg at 10:45 am arriving back at Salling at 11:30 am before heading north to Gaylord. In 1925, the train ran only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and stopped only at Johannesburg unless it was flag-stopped at Trombley or Johannesburg Junction.

Note Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Enginehouse | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Liftbridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swingbridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

[REF] = MC employee timetable #405 9/27/1925, plus additions.


Time Line

1931. The Michigan Public Service Commission authorizes the NYC/MC to remove and abandon the Johannesburg Branch from Sallings Junction to Johannesburg, a distance of 15 miles all in Otsego County, together with such spurs and sidings as may be connected. The petition has also been filed with the ICC. The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company has no further use for the MC tracks mentioned and has no objection. The timber has all been cut and removed and the company's sawmill has discontinued operations. [MPSC-1931-p24]

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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