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  The Civil War and its aftermath...

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1865

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  • Railroad event or related event in Michigan

  • Important non-railroad event in Michigan or outside.

  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

  • Economic panic or depression        Car ferries.

 

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  • STATISTICS:  Miles of railroads in operations in Michigan this year:  941.  [MRC/72]

  • Civil war continues.

  • April 9:  Civil war ends.

  • June:  Marquette & Ontonagon RR opens Ishpeming-Champion line.  [MCR-75/MDOT/MSL/AAD]

  • July:  Marquette & Ontonagon RR opens line from Winthrop Jct. to Lake Michigame.  [MRRC]

  • December:  Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad opens line from Jackson to Mason.  [MCR-75]

  • Bay City and Portsmouth Railway opens 10 mile long line from Saginaw & 34d Streets in Bay City, via Saginaw (6th and Water Streets) to Portsmouth and other points.  (street railway).  [MRRC]

  • A railroad is extended from Three Rivers to Schoolcraft.  [AAD]

  • MCRR opens first Dearborn station - Mid-1860's - [DPG]

  • First Escanaba ore dock is built.  [MSL]

  • Calumet Mine (copper) opens.  [MSL]

  • The Hecla Mine (copper) also opens.  [MSL]

  • First horizontal tank car is placed in railroad service.  [STOV]

  • Manual block system of train control is developed by Ashbel Welch.  [STOV]

  • First domestic steel rails are produced in the United States, at the Wyandotte (Michigan) Mills, using the Bessemer process.  [HWC][STOV]