RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION
NORFOLK SOUTHERN
Detroit District
FORMERLY Wabash Railroad/Norfolk & Western Railway
(Montpelier Division/3rd District)
CONSTRUCTED 1881 by Wabash St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
DOUBLE TRACK constructed 1903 (Delray-Oakwood)
DOUBLE TRACK constructed 1912 (Oakwood-Montpelier)
ABS installed 1912 (Delray-Milan)
COLOR LIGHT ABS installed 1926-1927 (Milan-Montpelier)
CTC installed 1957/second track eliminated (Adrian-Montpelier)
CTC installed by 2000's/second track eliminated (Delray-Adrian)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: Wabash Cannon Ball/1971
Radio Frequency - 160.380 (AAR Channel 18)
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is westward from Detroit to Montpelier
Distance is from Detroit
0.0 Detroit
4.4 Delray (CR crossing)
5.2 Rouge Bridge
5.6 Ecorse Jct. (CR crossing)
7.0 Oakwood
8.7 Oakwood Jct. (CN crossing)
11.3 Roberts
12.4 Hand
16.9 Preston
19.0 Romulus (CSX crossing)
21.3 French Landing
23.8 Belleville
28.6 Willis
31.5 Whittaker
37.3 Milan (AAR crossing)
42.2 Cone
46.7 Britton
52.4 Holloway
54.8 Raisin Center
58.8 Adrian
59.0 Adrian (ADBF crossing)
59.8 South Adrian
65.6 Sand Creek
70.2 Seneca
73.2 North Morenci
79.5 Munson
84.7 Franklin
85.7 Alvorton
89.8 Kunkle
96.9 Montpelier
1 track, CTC in use, controlled by Detroit District Dispatcher in Fort Wayne.
Past and present towers and interlockings.