STATISTICS:  Miles of railroads in operations in Michigan this year:  779.  [MRC/72]

Summer:  Lewis Cass, the "foremost citizen of Detroit for a generation", addresses members of the "three months' regiment" at the D&M depot when the regiment returned to Detroit.  [MRC-6/1973]

September:  Flint & Pere Marquette finishes construction from Saginaw 20 miles south towards Flint.  [MRRC]

November:  Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad opens line from Owosso to Laingsburg.  [MRRC]

December:  The Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad is the first main-line railroad to penetrate Michigan's white pine forests.  They began hauling logs from the Crockery Creek valley to Hunter SAvidge's sawmill in Mill Point adjacent to Spring Lake.  [MH-11/1993]

December 31:  Michigan Railroad Mileage Totaled 700 miles.  [MDOT/AAD]

Michigan Central Railroad builds a 3-story brick depot in Ypsilanti - [MRC-0988]

Passengers could travel from Boston to St. Louis in about 48 hours.  [STOV]

Passenger train conductors and brakemen were furnished uniforms by the railroad.  During the Civil War, these were stovepipe hats but these soon gave way to caps.   [AAD]

Nationally, there are 30,000 miles of railroad track.  [STOV]

George Pullman builds a plant in Detroit to manufacture his Palace and Sleeping Cars.  Later, Pullman moved the entire operation to Chicago.  [AAD]

Detroit's population: 45,619 [D18/BOM]