Timetable: MCRR - South Haven Branch - Kalamazoo to South Haven

The MC South Haven branch was a single track line built from the west side of Kalamazoo to Lake Michigan at South Haven. Siding capacity based on 44' cars.

Station MP from Kalamazoo Notes
Kalamazoo 0.0  DN J P42
Deuz and Brooks Siding 2.3  
Brownell  4.0   
Doubling Track  5.3   
Brickyard Siding 4.9  
Hopkins  6.0   
Alamo  9.1  D P12
Holmes Coal Kilns 10.3  
Williams 11.3 D P20
Sleepers Coal Kilns (1890) 11.8  
Bakers Coal Kilns (1890) 12.3  
Harrison  12.3   
Mentha  12.6   
Severns Coal Kilns (1890) 13.4  
Kendall  14.8  D P22 
Mike's Sand Track (1890) 16.1  
Pine Grove  17.5  P15 
Gobles  18.5  D P40
Bloomingdale  23.0  D P26
Berlamont  25.0  P13
Columbia  27.7  P3
Grand Junction xPM  29.2  DN I P19
Maple Forest  30.1   
Brown's Mills  30.3   
Lacota  32.0  D P19 
Whites Charcoal Track (1890) 32.2  
Wenbans Saw Mill Track (1890) 33.1  
Kibbie  35.1  P8 
South Haven  40.0  D J P26 
     

Notes:

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] = [MRL] plus additions.


Time Line

1871. The South Haven Division operates two daily round trip passenger trains between Kalamazoo and South Haven, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. [MCGW]

1871. Officers of the Michigan Central received a dispatch saying that the woods and fences on the line of the Kalamazoo & South Haven road were all on fire, and that the village of Grand Junction was destroyed. In South Haven the railroad buildings and wood piles were on fire and many houses in the village were either burning or in peril. [CDP-1871-1010]

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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