1918 Grand Trunk Railroad Timetable

It's been a while since I had a new timetable! (And when I say new, of course I mean old.)

1918 Grand Trunk Timetable

So apparently the railroads were taken over by the federal government during World War I? That's something I didn't remember from high school, and I haven't really studied World War I since high school.

On the last page there is a statement from W.G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, chiding railroad employees for blaming the government when the trains run late, and otherwise being rude to the public, and suggesting that such behavior isn't helping us beat the Kaiser, you know!

We have to go to page 6 to see that eastbound trains stop in Ainsworth at 10:42 a.m. (daily except Sunday) and 5:30 p.m. (daily), while westbound trains stop at 8:00 a.m. (daily) and 5:02 p.m. (daily except Sunday).

In connection with some of those little stops that weren't really stations between, I think they may have been called milk stands. I'm basing that conclusion on news items such as this, from the Hobart Gazette's "Ainsworth Pick-Ups" column of December 23, 1904:

It looked very foolish and daring to see a young fellow gallop down the railroad track from Adams milk stand to Ainsworth over culverts, cattle-guards and ties, just to do a little trading, especially while the roads are so smooth and nice.

And this, from the "Local Drifts" of August 5, 1910:

F.B. Price who lives on the Albert Halsted farm near the Adams milk stand threshed his wheat this week and was well pleased with the returns. His forty acres of wheat averaged 28½ bushels per acre and his oats and barley amounted to 2,000 bushels.

Looking at both the 1891 Plat Book and the 1926 Plat Book, we find that Albert Halsted's 77 acres in Ross Township lay between Ainsworth and Lottaville and were bisected by the Grand Trunk Railroad, so the Adams milk stand would correspond with the "Adams" shown between Ainsworth and Lottaville on this 1918 timetable. (Who this Adams guy was, though, I have no clue.)