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In 1923, the state of Michigan began an auto ferry service that was the first such system to be state-owned. [2] It continued until the day the Mackinac Bridge opened. The law required the ferry service to cease so that the bridge would not have competition and could pay off its construction bonds faster.
[5] [2] CASO, CSR's St. Thomas station, was a large two-storey building designed by Canadian architect Edgar Berryman (1839-1905) to serve railway passengers and house CSR headquarters; it was built in 1871–1873. CASO was the largest of the 31 CSR stations built in southern Ontario during the 1870s.
Chicago -- 1908 Clinton 1885 1888 Connecticut -- 1881 Elk -- 1891 Elmwood Elmwood & Allen Elmwood & Forest 1889 East Ferry -- 1895 Fillmore -- 1907 Forest 1888 Hertel -- 1894 Genesee 1861 Grant -- 1893 Herman Hoyt 1879 1881 Jefferson 1873 1894 Kenmore (Parkside)-- 1898 Kensington -- 1895 Main Docks City Line 1860 1890 Michigan 1880 1912 Niagara ...
The Erie Canal opened in 1825, allowing settlers from New England and New York to reach Michigan by water through Albany and Buffalo. This route opening and the incorporation of Chicago, Illinois in 1837, [2] increased Great Lakes steamboat traffic from Detroit through the Straits of Mackinac to Chicago. [3] [4] City of Cleveland (circa 1941)
The ferry, owned and operated by Lake Michigan Carferry, makes four-hour runs from Ludington, Michigan, to Manitowoc and back through Oct. 6. ... Roundtrip tickets for adults drop from $161 in ...
The first river ferry service began in 1860, when the Grand Trunk Railway's tracks reached Sarnia, Ontario, and it had to transfer its passengers and freight across the St. Clair River to Port Huron, and onto the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad to Detroit or its Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway route to Chicago. GTR ...
The distribution of buses are split between three bus depots: Gisel-Wolford (also known as Babcock-William), located at 721 New Babcock Street (at Howard Street), Cold Spring (also known as Main-Michigan), located at 1581 Michigan Avenue (at Main Street)-- both on the east side of Buffalo—and Frontier (also known as Kenmore-Military), located ...
Through most of its decades, and into the latter 1960s, the station served New York Central passenger trains over a New York–Buffalo–Windsor–Detroit–Jackson–Chicago route: the Empire State Express and the Wolverine. [1]