Timetable: MCRR - Solvay Track - Delta Switch to Detroit Edison

This was also known as the Exposition Spur. The information on locations on this line are taken from the MC station list in 1912, which was after the Exposition which occured in the late 1890's. Mileage is estimated based on station number and not exact.

Station MP from Delta Switch Notes
Delta Switch  0.0   
National Toothpick Co.  0.1  
Detroit Lumber Col.  0.3   
DT&I Connection  0.5   
Team Track 0.9   
Mich. Mallible Iron Company  1.1   
F. Cusino  1.2   
A. Y Malcomson 1.3  
Delray Freight House  1.5   
Solvay West Connection  1.6  
Miller & Kinnell  1.7   
C. H. Little  1.9   
Team Track  2.1   
Monarch Steel Casting Co.  2.2   
Detroit City Gas Company  2.3   
Chicago Railway Equipment Co.  2.3   
Michigan Pressed Steel Co. 2.4   
George B. Laidman  2.4   
Zoar Team Track  2.6   
Solvay Process Co. East Connection  2.7   
Michigan Copper & Brass Rolling Mill  2.8   
Detroit Edison Company  2.9   
     

Note:

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] = XXXXXX plus additions.

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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