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The Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway depot in Coopersville is a single-story red brick building with an attached tower and a red clay tile roof. The building was used both as a passenger waiting room and as an electrical substation where AC power was converted to DC to power the train cars.
The Coopersville and Marne Railway is a non-profit [1] tourist railroad and common carrier in West Michigan.It connects with the Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad in Grand Rapids. . The company owns the track, which runs from Walker, Michigan to Coopersville, Michigan in Kent and Ottawa counties, approx 14 mil
The Spirit of Washington dinner train was a dinner train that operated for 15 years from Renton, Washington, with trips heading to Woodinville and back, and then for three months out of Tacoma, with trips heading from Tacoma to Lake Kapowsin near Mount Rainier. On October 29, 2007, the operators of the dinner train announced they would be ...
The former Grand Rapids station, used from 1984 to 2014 The earlier Union Station (1900) was demolished, 1958–1959, to make way for US Highway 131 expansion into a freeway. Several companies ran passenger trains through the station: New York Central Railroad , Pennsylvania Railroad and Pere Marquette Railway later assumed by the Chesapeake ...
Grand Rapids Art Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Art: Renaissance to Modern art, with strength in European and American 19th- and 20th-century painting and sculpture Grand Rapids Children's Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Children's: website: Grand Rapids Public Museum: Grand Rapids: Kent: West Michigan: Local history ...
The Peninsular Railway leased space in the building, and the depot served both lines. This lasted until 1900, when a fire destroyed the building. [3] In 1903, plans were announced to construct a new depot, servicing both lines. The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad hired the Grand Rapids architectural firm Williamson & Crow to design the new depot.
The first train, pulled by the locomotive 'Muskegon', arrived in Grand Rapids on January 1, 1870. Regular service commenced a few weeks later on January 17. Shortly after the line's creation on August 15, 1870, it was perpetually leased by the Michigan Central Railroad as a branch for their system.
Michigan Services are three Amtrak passenger rail routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with the Michigan cities of Grand Rapids, Port Huron, and Pontiac, and stations en route. The group falls under the Amtrak Midwest brand and is a component of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative .