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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum

 

1846

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  • February 2:  Central line reaches Kalamazoo from Battle Creek.  [MCR-75/MDOT/AAD]

  • March 28: The state authorizes the sale of the Central line, and it is paid $2,000,000 for it.  The Michigan Central Railroad if formed by Bostonian John Murray Forbes and others.  [RWC/AAD]

  • May 9:  State authorizes sale of  Southern line for $500,000 ($650,000 less than cost) and the Michigan Southern Railroad is formed.  [AAD]

  • The building of new railroads comes to a virtual halt until 1856 when the Railroad Incorporation Act was passed and signed into law.  [AAD]