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The West Michigan Railroad (reporting mark WMI) is a shortline railroad in southwest Michigan. It began operations in 1995, replacing the bankrupt Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railroad (reporting mark KLSC) on an ex- Pere Marquette Railway line between Hartford and Paw Paw, Michigan. That company had taken over operations in 1987 from CSX ...
Paw Paw was incorporated in 1837 and is located in the southwestern portion of Michigan, on Interstate 94 (I-94) approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Kalamazoo. The town was the home of African American cookbook author Malinda Russell who published the first known cookbook by a black woman in the United States. She lived in Paw Paw after she ...
The Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train in 2007. The Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train was a dinner train that operated in Michigan for 24 years; first out of Paw Paw, for approximately two years, then from Walled Lake, with trips heading from West Bloomfield to Wixom, where it connected to the CSX mainline and then back to West Bloomfield, MI ...
The event runs along U.S. 12 from Detroit to the edge of west Michigan. More info: us12heritagetrail.org . This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: 5 Michigan antiques, flea markets ...
M-151. → M-151. US Highway 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan. In Michigan, it runs for 210 miles (340 km) between New Buffalo and Detroit as a state trunkline highway and Pure Michigan Byway.
Old US-12, west of the State Police post Paw Paw: September 17, 1957: Van Buren County Courthouse Complex† 111 East Michigan Avenue Paw Paw: November 7, 1977: Issac Watts Willard Informational Designation 429 S. Kalamazoo St. Paw Paw: August 18, 2014: West Michigan Summer Resorts / Jewish Resorts Informational Designation 265 North Shore ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 4 miles (6.4 km) The Paw Paw Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in Van Buren County, Michigan, between 1857 and 1887. At a length of 4 miles (6.4 km), it was the shortest operating common carrier railroad in the state. [1] Later (from 1902 until January 15, 1982), the Ludington & Northern ...
Length. 200 mi (320 km) Existed. 1830s–present. Known for. populating Michigan Territory in the 19th century. Territorial Road Informational Designation, Paw Paw, Michigan 42° 13.079′ N, 85° 53.679′ W [1] Territorial Road was the first main road through Michigan, from Detroit to Chicago, Illinois. In the 19th century, it led people from ...