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A map of the DUR network from 1904. Map of Detroit United Railway c 1907 First interurban cars on the Detroit, Almont and Northern Railroad, Almont, Michigan, July 1, 1914. The Detroit United Railway was a transport company which operated numerous streetcar and interurban lines in southeast Michigan. Although many of the lines were originally ...
The Detroit and Pontiac Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Michigan during the mid-nineteenth century. It was the sixth railroad to receive a charter from Michigan, then a territory , and the second, after the Erie & Kalamazoo , to actually operate trains .
The Battle of Bloody Run was fought during Pontiac's War on July 31, 1763, on what now is the site of Elmwood Cemetery in the Eastside Historic Cemetery District of Detroit, Michigan. In an attempt to break Pontiac 's siege of Fort Detroit , about 250 British troops attempted to make a surprise attack on Pontiac's encampment.
Manhattan City and Interurban Railway [1] 1914: 1926: Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway [2] 1906: July 9, 1940: Southwestern Interurban Railway [1] Union Traction Company [2] 1904: 1947: Later Union Electric Railway: Westmoreland Interurban Railroad [2]
The Detroit, Lake Shore and Mt. Clemens Railway, also known as the Shore Line Interurban, is a defunct interurban which operated in the Detroit area in the late 1890s. The company incorporated on July 3, 1896 to construct a 23-mile (37 km) line from Detroit through 'the Points' and out to Mt. Clemens. This line opened on September 28, 1898.
Interurban August 1914 March 1933 Operated on the Albia Interurban Railway's tracks in Albia city limits. Charles City Western Railway [63]: 251–252 Charles City ― Marble Rock: Petrol (gasoline) Interurban January 1, 1911 1915 Charles City ― Marble Rock ― Colwell: Electric Interurban July 30, 1915 July 19, 1952 Charles City Electric
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.
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