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West Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway: KLS 1905 1925 N/A Kalamazoo, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: PM: 1871 1883 Hastings, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo and Schoolcraft Railroad: NYC: 1866 1869 Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad: Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad: NYC: 1869 1916 Michigan ...
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 .
Michigan's railroad commissioner assessed the company's situation thus in 1887: The St. Joseph Valley Railroad Company, operating a short narrow gauge road in Berrien county, between Buchanan and Berrien Springs, failing to keep its track and bridges in a condition of safety for traffic, the same were condemned for further use by my predecessor ...
The Detroit and Mackinac Railway (reporting marks D&M, DM), informally known as the "Turtle Line", was a railroad in the northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The railroad had its main offices and shops in Tawas City with its main line running from Bay City north to Cheboygan, and operated from 1894 to 1992. In ...
Pages in category "Heritage railroads in Michigan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
View of Michigan Central Railroad Station with Canadian Pacific trains in foreground, pictured in 1927. At the end of World War II, there were about 25 million passenger cars in the United States.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833, and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake Erie (in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio) and across northern Indiana.