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Timetable: Pere Marquette - Baldwin Sub - Comstock Park to Baldwin
This was a single track line from the Grand Rapids ares north to Baldwin. Station times and siding lengths from 1949.
Station | MP from Grand Rapids | Notes |
Comstock Park xPRR | 5.5 | |
Alpine | 8.6 | |
Englishville | ||
Sparta XGTW | 14.9 | D I P47 |
Kent City | 20.0 | D |
Casnovia | 22.5 | P62 |
Bailey | 25.0 | |
Grant | 29.8 | D W P57 |
Newaygo | 36.3 | D |
Drew | 40.9 | P65 |
White Cloud | 47.2 | D P77 |
Ramona | ||
Brohman | ||
Kopje | 58.6 | P63 |
Bitley | 63.3 | P56 |
Lilley | ||
Alderson | ||
Marlborough | ||
Baldwin xPM | 73.8 | DN X W C P67 |
Notes:
From Comstock Park north a 1.34% grade for three miles.
Sparta: Crossng was originally interlocked. Protected by gates in 1945.
White Cloud: Defective equipment detector installed here in 1981.
Bitley: A two mile ascending grade southbound of 1.2%.
Baldwin: This crossing had stop signs for many years, then interlockred.
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
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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