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Timetable: Milwaukee Road - Menominee Sub - Crivitz to Menominee
This was the Milwaukee Road branch from Crivitz to Marinette and across the river to Menominee. It is currently owned by the E&LS and used for car storage. Station hours and siding capacity as of 1938. This line was built through Marinette and across the river to Menominee. In 1895, the Finntown branch was built north along the old C&NW main line.
Station | MP from Chicago | Notes |
Crivitz, WI | 248.1 | DN W C J Y S P53 TC=NI |
Loomis | 253.8 | TC=OM |
Porterfield | 260.5 | TC=RD |
Bagley Junction xW&M | 263.9 | P29 X TC=BJ |
Park Mills | 266.6 | |
Marinette, WI | 268.3 | S Yard TC=MA |
Menominee River Bridge | 268.8 | (MI/WI State Line) |
Bridge Street Crossing, MI xInterurban | 269.1 | XI J |
Menominee, MI | 270.4 | D C W T Yard TC=M |
Finntown Line in Menominee | From Chicago | |
Menominee River Bridge | 268.8 | |
Bridge Street Crossing, MI xCNW | 268.1 | J X/I |
10th Avenue Crossing xInterurban | 268.2 | X |
13th Avenue Crossing xInterurban | 268.6 | X |
C&NW Crossing xCNW | 270.0 | X |
End of track | 271.5 | |
Notes
C&NW Crossing at 268.1 was a full interlocking.
C&NW Crossing at 270.0 was a crossing with signals but not interlocked.
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] = MILW timetable + [MRL] and other sources.
Time Line
1884. This line is built by the Menominee branch railroad (a construction railroad) from Crivitz, WI to Menominee via Marinette, WI, and then purchased by the Milwaukee & Northern railroad in 1886. [MRL]
1890. The "Finntown Line" is constructed in Menominee from a junction just north of the Menominee River Bridge for a mileage of 1.5 miles, ending at the C&NW main line on the north side of town. This route was parallel to the C&NW Menominee cut-off line, which followed in 1895. [MRL]
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