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Harger Line Rail-Trail 10.1 16.3 Saginaw, Tuscola: Michigan Central Railroad [74] Harbor Beach Bike-Pedestrian Path 1 1.6 Huron: Pere Marquette Railway [75] Linear Park Pathway 2.3 3.7 Lapeer: Michigan Central Railroad [76] Pere Marquette Rail Trail: 30 48 Clare, Isabella, Midland: Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad [77] [78] Portland Riverwalk ...
Cincinnati Northern Railroad (1894–1938) Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ... Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway; ... Michigan Air Line Railroad;
Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad: Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad: PM: 1869 1869 Michigan Lake Shore Railroad: Muskegon, Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad: PRR: 1886 1917 Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad: Muskegon Lake Railroad: PM: 1879 1900 Pere Marquette Railroad: Muskegon River and Rose Lake Railway: 1878 1881 N/A Negaunee and ...
With insufficient funds on hand to pay the bondholders, the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon filed for bankruptcy protection in July 1926. Cars continued to run on a reduced schedule until April 18, 1928, when the line was officially abandoned, [8] and the passenger services were replaced by Greyhound Lines buses. [12]
The MLS was formed on October 13, 1869, by the consolidation of the Allegan and Holland Railroad and the Muskegon and Ferrysburg Railroad. The A&H was organized on July 29, 1868; the M&F on January 22, 1869. By July 1, 1870, a 57.5-mile (92.5 km) line which linked Allegan to Muskegon on the coast of Lake Michigan finished construction.
The Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway (TS&M) was started by a group of Toledo Ohio investors headed by David Robinson Jr. and John Ashley, who at the time was also building the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad, which connected Ashley with Owosso, Michigan. The investors spent about $1,560,000 to build the line.
Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad - between 1882 and 1888 built a line from Gunnison to Baldwin and continued work towards the Kebler Pass which it abandoned on bankruptcy. Georgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Railway - began in 1880 to build from Georgetown to Keystone , but stopped at Graymont.
On September 10, 1910, the SS Pere Marquette No. 18 was bound for Milwaukee from Ludington, Michigan, with a load of 29 railroad freight cars and 62 people on board. Near midnight, the vessel began to take on massive amounts of water. The captain dumped nine railroad cars into Lake Michigan in a failed attempt to prevent the ship from sinking ...