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Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad. Ohio Southern Railroad (1881–1898) Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad. Detroit United Railway. Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Rail Road. Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad. Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad. Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad. Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway.
Railroads have been vital in the history of the population and trade of rough and finished goods in the state of Michigan. While some coastal settlements had previously existed, the population, commercial, and industrial growth of the state further bloomed with the establishment of the railroad. The state's proximity to Ontario, Canada, aided ...
One of the two 4-8-0 locomotives owned by the IR&HB. They were later sold to the Algoma Central Railway. The Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad (IR&HB) is a defunct railroad constructed to haul iron ore in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula during the 1890s. Financial and engineering problems prevented the railroad's operation; it remains an unusual ...
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.
Under the Michigan & Ohio (1883–1886), this line was extended another 113.7 miles (183.0 km) to Dundee, but by 1937 this extension had been abandoned. In 1913 the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee , the then current owner of the Allegan–Dundee line, sold the Allegan– Battle Creek section, which included the old MCW&LM line, to the Michigan ...
Grand Rapids and Saginaw Railroad. Highland Park Railway. Holland and Lake Michigan Railway. Houghton County Traction Company. Inter-Urban Railway. Jackson and Ann Arbor Railway. Jackson and Battle Creek Traction Company. Jackson Street Railway. Jackson and Suburban Traction Company.
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad [6] Grand Trunk (GT) Great Northern Railway (GN) Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway [7] Fernley and Lassen Railway. Fredericksburg and Northern Railway [8] Hudson Bay Railway (HBR) Houston Belt & Terminal Railroad [9] Houston, East & West Texas Railroad [10]
The City of Detroit invested $50,000 in the project. The State of Michigan bailed out the railroad in 1837 by purchasing it and investing $5,000,000. The now state-owned company was renamed the Central Railroad of Michigan. John Murray Forbes, President of Michigan Central Railroad from 1846 to 1855