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Elkhart, Niles and Lake Michigan Railroad: NYC: 1880 1882 Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway: Empire and Southeastern Railroad: 1920 N/A Epworth League Railway: 1895 1901 Ludington and Northern Railway: Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad: NYC: 1833 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: Erie and Michigan Railway and Navigation Company: E&M, EM D&M ...
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.
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 ...
Michigan Department of Transportation (2021). Next Generation PR Finder (Map). Michigan Department of Transportation. Bureau of Public Roads & American Association of State Highway Officials (November 11, 1926). United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials (Map). 1:
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
D&LN logo old DT&I Railroad map. In 1901, the merger of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railway and the Ohio Southern Railway formed the Detroit Southern Railroad. [1] This company was purchased at foreclosure on May 1, 1905, by Harry B. Hollins & Company of New York, which reincorporated it in the state of Michigan under the name of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway.
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]
WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Wisconsin and Michigan Railway; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WI-60, "Wisconsin-Michigan Railroad Bridge, Spanning Menominee River, on County Trunk Highway JJ, Wagner, Marinette County, WI", 24 photos, 34 data pages, 2 photo caption pages; Schmidt, Floyd (January 1, 2016).