Timetable: Wabash Railroad - Main Line 2nd District - Montpelier to Peru

The 2nd District expended from Montpelier to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Station MP from Detroit Notes
Montpelier 96.9  Yard
Blakesley  104.4  P110 
Artic  109.9  P32 
Butler xNYC  114.9  I P116 
St. Joe xBO  123.2  I P39 
Spencerville  125.3  P116 
Grabill  130.6  P125 
thurman  137.0  P53 
New Haven xNKP  140.5  I P77 
Fort Wayne xPRR  146.5 
Hugo xNKP  149.2 
Prairie Switch  154.8  P65 
Aboite  157.2   
Roanoke  161.7  P87 
Mardenis  165.8  P120 
Huntington xErie  170.4  I P119 
Andrews  176.2   
Andrews Yard  177.0  P128 Yard 
Lagro  183.2  P51 
Wabash  188.8  P56 
Hartman  190.3  P116 
Rich Valley  194.2  P52 
Junction  200.2  I Yard
Peru xNKP  202.5  X Yard 
     

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


Notes

Siding capacity as of 1941. Double track from Hugo to Junction (at Peru).


Time Line

1881. The telegraph line between Detroit and Butler was tested yesterday and messages sent the entire length, but as yet there are no intermediate offices. For the present, the instruments attached to the Detroit terminus will be worked from Vice President G.W. Balch's office. [DFP-1881-0712]

 

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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