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The State Line Trail is a lengthy, repurposed stretch of railroad right-of-way once used by the Chicago-based Chicago and Northwestern Railway (C&NW).At the time when standard time zones were being drawn throughout the United States, railroad corporations and their schedules played a key role in determining which locations were assigned to different time zones.
In November 2011, Michigan was awarded $150 million to buy the Kalamazoo–Dearborn portion of the line from Norfolk Southern. Combined with a $196 million federal government grant announced the previous month to improve signaling and track quality, trains will be able to run at 110 mph (177 km/h) on 77% of the length of the Detroit–Chicago ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
The first state road agency, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD), was created on July 1, 1905. At first the department administered rewards to the counties and townships for building roads to state minimum specifications. In 1905, there were 68,000 miles (110,000 km) of roads in Michigan.
Congress passed a law to build a military wagon road on March 3, 1863, from Fort Wilkins to Houghton and then south to the state line. The road was laid out in 1864 following what is today M-26 between Copper Harbor and Phoenix, US 41 south to Houghton, M-26 south to Winona and Federal Forest Highway 16 (FFH-16) to the state
M-44 Connector, or Conn. M-44, is a 4.185-mile (6.735 km) connector route state trunkline highway running along Plainfield Avenue in the Grand Rapids area. [1] It connects I-96/M-37 near Lamberton Lake with M-44 running along East Beltline Avenue near the Grand River. In between, the highway passes through a commercial area.
The Blue Water (previously the Blue Water Limited) is a higher-speed passenger train service operated by Amtrak as part of its Michigan Services.The 319-mile (513 km) route runs from Chicago, Illinois, to Port Huron in Michigan's Blue Water Area, for which the train is named.
In 1919, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) [a] signposted the highway system for the first time, [14] and two different highways followed sections of the future US 27 corridor. The original M-29 ran from the Indiana state line north to Lansing. The second highway was M-14 from Lansing north to Cheboygan. [15]