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The station is owned by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), but the tracks are owned by the Canadian National Railway. [5] Of the 22 Michigan stations served by Amtrak, Pontiac was the 16th-busiest in fiscal year 2015, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 43 passengers daily. [6]
A map of the DUR network from 1904. Map of Detroit United Railway c 1907 First interurban cars on the Detroit, Almont and Northern Railroad, Almont, Michigan, July 1, 1914. The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally ...
Manhattan City and Interurban Railway [1] 1914: 1926: Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway [2] 1906: July 9, 1940: Southwestern Interurban Railway [1] Union Traction Company [2] 1904: 1947: Later Union Electric Railway: Westmoreland Interurban Railroad [2]
Arkansas Valley Interurban Railway: Wichita ― Newton ― Hutchinson: Electric Interurban December 22, 1915 July 31, 1938 Union Street Railway Winfield: Horse August 31, 1886 [82] May 17, 1909 Southwestern Interurban Railway Winfield ― Arkansas City: Electric Interurban June 1909 May 24, 1926
Pontiac station is an Amtrak train station in Pontiac, Livingston County, Illinois, United States.Pontiac station is served by the Illinois-focused Lincoln Service between Chicago Union Station and the Gateway Transportation Center in St. Louis, Missouri and the long-distance Texas Eagle between Chicago and Los Angeles Union Station.
The Interurban Era. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing. ISBN 978-0-89024-003-8. OCLC 4357897 – via Archive.org. A historical review of U.S. interurban railways state by state. Extensive photographs and commentary. Young, Andrew (1984). St. Louis Car Company Album {Interurbans Special #91}. Glendale, CA: Interurban Press. ISBN 0916374629.
In 1983, SEMTA discontinued the Detroit-Pontiac commuter trains, two years later Amtrak offered funds to construct a rail station at the Joe Louis Arena which would be the terminus of a commuter service to Ann Arbor, however, it was never constructed. The Detroit People Mover opened in 1987 after some 20 years of discussion.
The Detroit and Pontiac Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Michigan during the mid-nineteenth century. It was the sixth railroad to receive a charter from Michigan, then a territory , and the second, after the Erie & Kalamazoo , to actually operate trains .