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Rogers City had to wait until 1911 for a direct railroad connection. The Detroit and Mackinac Railway, successor to the Alpena and Northern Railroad and the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad, constructed a 13.6-mile (21.9 km) from the former A&N main line near Posen to Rogers City. The line opened on June 18, 1911. [4] A major source of ...
Michigan Air-Line Railway; Michigan and Canada Bridge and Tunnel Company; Michigan Central Bridge Company; Michigan Central Railroad; Michigan Interstate Railway; Michigan Lake Shore Railroad; Michigan Northern Railway; Michigan and Ohio Railroad; Michigan Southern Railroad (1846–55) Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; Michigan ...
St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad: CN: 1872 1875 Michigan Air Line Railway: St. Clair River, Pontiac and Jackson Railroad: CN: 1872 1872 St. Clair and Chicago Air Line Railroad: St. Clair Tunnel Company: CN: 1886 2008 Grand Trunk Western Railroad: St. Clair and Western Railroad: NYC: 1906 1932 N/A St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern ...
The Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad (IR&HB) is a defunct railroad constructed to haul iron ore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the 1890s. Financial and engineering problems prevented the railroad's operation; it remains an unusual example of a railroad which was completed but never used.
Later (from 1902 until January 15, 1982), the Ludington & Northern Railway Company, at 2.79 miles (4.49 km), stripped the Paw Paw of its title as "shortest Michigan Railroad". [ 2 ] The Michigan Central Railroad had originally planned to reach the coast of Lake Michigan at St. Joseph , but these plans changed and the company built to New ...
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
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the ...
The Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company incorporated on April 2, 1869 with the intention of constructing a 40-mile (64 km) line from Kalamazoo to South Haven , on the shores of Lake Michigan .