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Indiana and Lake Michigan Railway: NYC: 1887 1898 St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern Railroad: Indiana and Michigan Railroad: PM: 1881 1881 Chicago and West Michigan Railway: Ingalls, White Rapids and Northern Railroad: 1889 1894 Wisconsin and Michigan Railway: Ingalls, White Rapids and Northern Railway: 1886 1889 Ingalls, White Rapids and ...
The Michigan railroad network, c. 1876. 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 Michigan Central Railroad (reporting mark MC) was originally chartered in 1832 [2] to establish rail service between Detroit, Michigan, and St. Joseph, Michigan. The railroad later operated in the states of Michigan , Indiana , and Illinois in the United States and the province of Ontario in Canada .
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The railroad replaced its steam locomotives with two diesel electric switcher locomotives manufactured by American Locomotive Company, purchased in 1945 (model S-1 #51 and #52) [9] and the third purchased in the early 1950s (model S-2 #60). For a few years, the railroad touted that they were the first completely dieselized railroad in Michigan.
1912 map of the railway. The Detroit, Bay City & Alpena Railroad, was a 3 ft 2 in (965 mm) narrow gauge [2] short line operated from Bay City northward to the Lake Huron port of Alpena. The line was converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge in 1886 [3] and was reorganized into the Detroit and Mackinac (D&M) on December 17, 1894 ...
Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad box car, built in 1901, on display at Mid-Continent Railway Museum. In 1904 the railroad carried over 1.2 million short tons (1.1 Mt) of freight, and over 1.1 million short tons (1.00 Mt) of that was iron ore. It had 489 ore cars, 14 locomotives, and 121 employees. [2]
The Grand Trunk Western Railway and the New York Central Railroad were served at other stations in Grand Rapids. [4] By 1946, Michigan Central operations were entirely folded into New York Central operations. [5] Noteworthy passenger train service at 1950 included: Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (formerly the Pere Marquette Railway): [6] [7]