The train was frequented by northbound travelers to popular Northern Michigan resort destinations north of Grand Rapids, Michigan, such as Petoskey, Bay View (only northbound trains stopped there; it was the stop after Petoskey), Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island. One section of the Northern Arrow was a seasonal summer-only weekly service between Chicago and Mackinaw City.Pennsylvania timetable, August 6, 1950, Tables 22, 23 http://streamlinermemories.info/PRR/PRR50TT.pdf Additional northbound sleeper sections after leaving Petoskey diverged west to Harbor Springs.Maiken, Peter. Night Trains, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, p. 71, p. 351, drawing from a 1952 Official Guide to the Railways issue .
