-
March 26: First
passenger trains crosses the newly built Portage Canal bridge
between Houghton and Hancock. [CRWS]
-
April 6: City of Detroit
suffers from a 24" snowfall, stopping streetcar and train
traffic. [DWS]
-
May 17: Black River
Railroad is sold to the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad.
[MRRC]
-
June: Toledo, Ann Arbor and
Mt. Pleasant completes line from Alma to Mt. Pleasant. [MRRC]
-
July 1: Saginaw, Tuscola
and Huron Railroad opens 3' line from Sebewaing to Bad Axe.
Converted to standard gauge in 1891 after purchase by Pere
Marquette. [MRRC]
-
Summer: Toledo, Ann Arbor
and Northern Michigan RR reaches Howell. New (current)
depot built. [MHS]
-
Mid: Saginaw,
Tuscola & Huron RR built from Bay Port to Bad Axe - Mid/1886
- [PMHS]
-
Mid: Construction begins on
the Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway (CK&S) from Kalamazoo
to Hastings. Reaches 19 miles northeast towards Hastings
by September 20th. [NYC-2/1989]
-
August: Detroit, Lansing &
Northern opens line from St. Louis to Howard City. [MRRC]
-
September 1: Detroit's
first electric railway line started on Dix Avenue (Vernor
Highway). Also a Van Depoele system. [EMR4]
-
September 3: Grass Lake and
Manistee River Railroad opens 8 mile long line from sec 33 T25N
R5W and sec 17 T25N R4W to Manistee River in sec 35 T26N R6W.
[MRRC]
-
September 18: Highland Park
electric streetcar begins operating on Woodward Avenue from
Baltimore to Manchester. [DWS]
-
September 20: Detroit, Bay
City and Alpena Railroad completes line from Black River to
3 miles south of Alpena. The entire DBC&A is converted to
standard gauge. [MRRC/GW]
-
October 11: The first DBC&A
passenger train reaches Alpena. [GW]
-
October 20: Manistique
Railway opens line from Seney to Hoist. [MRRC]
-
December 1: Grand Rapids &
Indiana opens line from Muskegon Jct. (near Grand Rapids) to Muskegon. [MRRC]
-
The Detroit, Bay City and Alpena
was extended north from AuSable to Alpena. All tracks were
widened to standard gauge. [HI]
-
Detroit, Bay City and Alpena
constructs several branck lines between 1986 and 1890, including
the Rose City Division.
-
The Manistique Railway builds a
line from Seney to Grand Marais. [MSL]
-
The Cincinnati, Jackson and
Mackinaw Railroad is extended from the Indiana state line
through Lenawee County to Jackson. [Adrian Daily Telegram,
6/26/1975]
-
From 1886 to 1888, the Toledo,
Saginaw and Muskegon Railway (later GTW) builds from 20 miles
west of Owosso to Muskegon, a distance of 96 miles. The
route used trackage rights to Owosso by way of running over the
Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway (later AA).
[IT-10/1972]
-
The Soo Line is completed from
Iron Mountain to Hermansville. [SOO-10/1991]
-
Michigan
Central RR depot at Ann Arbor constructed. This granite
block building was designed by Frederick Spier, which was
influenced by the great American architect Henry Hobson
Richardson.[MDOT/MHM]
-
The Acme White Lead and Color
Works builds a plant on St. Aubin at the crossing of the MCRR
Bay City line, in Hamtramck Township. It becomes one of the
world’s largest paint manufacturing facilities. It was acquired
by Sherwin-Williams in 1920 and is closed in 1977. [CRP1]
-
Michigan Central RR depot at
Kalamazoo is built. Continues to exist as of 2001.
[IT-12/1974]
-
Detroit's population is 116,340.
[D18]
-
Ann Arbor Railroad builds a depot
at Howell. Continues to exist as of 2001.
[IT-12/1974]
-
U. S. Supreme Court
reverses 1877 decision in case of Wabash Railroad v. Illinois
(where states regulated railroad rates);
proclaims only Congress has the right to regulate interstate
commerce. [DWS/STOV]
-
The Richmond Locomotive and
Machine Works is founded. [SAM]
