Timetable: Pere Marquette - Buchannan Branch - Benton Harbor to Buchannan

This was a single track branch line between the above points. This was one of four railroad lines extending south from the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph port area (two PM, one MC and one Big Four).

Station MP from Ben. Harbor Notes
Benton Harbor  0.0 
Napier ~3.0   
Scotdale ~7.0   
Royalton  ~10.5   
Winchman ~12.5   
Berrien Springs ~14.5   
Jaquay ~17.5   
Buchanan  ~23.0   
     

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

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Notes


Time Line

1881. It costs 40¢ to go from Buchannan to Berrien Springs on the narrow gauge. [NWM-1881-0928]

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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