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Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Michigan" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad; H.
Boyne City Railroad: BCRR 1935 1976 N/A Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena Railroad: BCG&A 1905 1935 Boyne City Railroad: Boyne City and South Eastern Railroad: 1893 1905 Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena Railroad: Buchanan and St. Joseph River Railroad: NYC: 1894 1912 Michigan Central Railroad: Buckley and Douglas Railroad: 1881 1889 N/A Cadillac and ...
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1731-1. Meints, Graydon M. (1992). Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-318-3. Meints, Graydon M. (September 2005). "The fruit belt line: Southwest Michigan's failed 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 ...
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 Huckleberry Railroad is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Genesee Township, Michigan, near Flint.The railroad operates alongside Crossroads Village, both of which are owned and maintained by the Genesee County Parks and Recreation Commission.
The Lac La Belle and Calumet Railroad was an American, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad that operated in the Keweenaw Peninsula, or the extreme northern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The line was owned by the Conglomerate Mining Company and ran between a stamp mill at Lac La Belle and the Delaware copper mine from 1883 to 1888, when poor ...