Timetable: NYC - Dundee Branch - Dundee to Moscow (DT&M)

This was the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee railroad which was taken over by Vanderbilt interests and divided in half. The Lake Shore received the line from Marshall in Calhoun County to Dundee in Monroe County. The division point was moved to Moscow in Hillsdale after this line west of Battle Creek was sold to an interurban railroad in 1913. Station hours and siding capacity as of 1928.

Timetable below is for the NYC portion. See the Michigan Central timetables for the MC portion west of Moscow.

Station MP from Dundee Notes
Moscow 46.8 D P18 TC=SC
Jerome  43.9 P20 
Baker 42.2  
Knorr Lake 38.3  
Addison  36.8 D W P29 TC=AD 
Addison Junction xDTM 35.9 D X G TC=JN 
Devils Lake  33.8 P9
Lake Rest 33.1  
Onsted  28.3 D P28 TC=CD 
Pentecost  24.9 P7 
Tipton  21.8 D P25 TC=PO 
Russell Siding 17.9  
Gravel Pit 16.9  
DT&I Wye   Y J
Tecumseh Junction xNYC  16.1 DN X W G P11 TC=SU 
Tecumseh 15.8  
DT&M Yard  15.7 EH CS Yard 
Ridgeway  11.3  
Stevens 10.2  
Britton  9.4 SC=GT 
XN Tower xWab 9.3  DN I TC=XN 
Rea  3.8  
Dundee xAA 0.0 DN I Y TC=RN 
     

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

Sources: Employees and timetables + [MRL]


Notes


OfficialGuideJan1910-LSMS-DundeeBranch.jpgTime Line

1871. The line from Allegan to Monteith is completed by the Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan. [MRL]

1877. The MC&LM is purchased by the Allegan & South Eastern. [MRL]

1883. The A&SE is purchased by the Michigan & Ohio railroad.

1883. The line is extended from Monteith to Dundee by the Michigan & Ohio railroad. [MRL]

1887. The Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw purchases the M&O. The railroad is reorganized in 1891. [MRL]

1897. The CJ&M is reorganized as the Toledo & Milwaukee railroad and is renamed one month later as the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee. [MRL]

1897. The Chicago & West Michigan announces that they have leased the Allegan branch of the road from Allegan to Holland to the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Railroad Co., the lease to take effect December 1, 1897. A trackage arrangement has been consummated between the two roads so that DT&M trains will go through from Allegan via Holland to Grand Haven using the C&WM track. This includes both passenger and freight trains. [DFP-1897-1124]

1899. The line is leased to the Cincinnati Northern railway. [MRL]

1899. The DT&M operates three passenger and mail trains each way between Addison Junction and Marshall. [HS-1899-0214]

1903. The DT&M will enter Toledo over the Lake Shore via Tecumseh and Lenawee Junction, instead of on the Ann Arbor railroad via Dundee. It has also been reported that the DT&M treack between Tecumseh and Dundee to the Detroit Southern. [DFO-1903-1010]

1905. The line is leased to the Michigan Central and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern jointly. [MRL]. Each ran an equal segment of the road with the dividing point being at the Marshall shops. After the MC part of the line was sold in 1913 from west of Battle Creek to Allegan, the middle demarcation was moved to Moscow.

1932. The line is abandoned from Dundee to Marshall via Tecumseh. [MRL]

1968. The line is leased to Penn Central, and then taken over by Conrail in 1976, and purchased by Norfolk Southern in 1999.

 

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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