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Photo 047B

 

Western Michigan University incline railroad.

 

A short incline railroad at Western Michigan University.  Date uncertain.  The railroad ran on the university's east campus from 1908 to 1949 and carried students up and down Prospect Hill.  The trolleys averaged 2,280 passengers a day.  Safety issues and rising maintenance costs closed the railroad in 1949.

 

[Mark Worrall collection]

 

 

   
   

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