RRHX

  The first decade of Michigan railroading...

Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum

 

1832

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  • Railroad event in Michigan

  • Important non-Michigan railroad event

  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

  • Economic panic or depression         Car ferries.

 

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  • February 1:  "The Western Immigrant" newspaper of Ann Arbor suggests a trans-continental railroad, the first mention in print of such a project.  [MT]

  • June 28:  Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad chartered.  [MDOT]