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January: The
42-mile Detroit & Charlevoix RR, started as a logging railroad,
is incorporated as a common carrier. At one time, the D&C
was reputed to be the longest railroad in Michigan owned by one
person. [MDOT]
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January 25: The
Port Huron Southern RR (later Port Huron & Detroit RR) was
chartered. [MDOT]
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March 29: Harbor
Springs Railway opens 2' 6" line from Harbor Springs to Cross
Village. Abandoned in 1910. [MRRC]
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April 8: LSMS Train No. 63
was robbed at Durham, near LaPorte. A brakeman, using a
railroad detective's gun, shot one of the intruders. They
were taken to jail. [LS]
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May 11: The Mineral Range
Railroad reduces the round trip rate to 50 cents between
Houghton/Hancock and Calumet next Monday afternoon, for the
matinee performance of "She Stoops to Conquer", at the Calumet
theatre. The newspaper also reports that the Calumet
Theatre is the finest play house in Michigan. [CCEN]
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June 7: The Lake Shore
completes the last of its double tracking project between
Chicago and Toledo. The last section to be completed was
between Ligonier and Brimfield, Indiana. [LS]
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July 20: The street car
operation in the Calumet area begins to transport passengers,
with cars running every half your from Fifth Street in Red
Jacket, to East Houghton. The paper reports that every car
carried a good crowd and last evening the cars wee packed with
"all classes" of people anxious to take their first ride over
the new line. To many, it was their first ride ever on any
street car. The news reports the cars to be "large and
electric lighted". People lined the streets on both sides
"trying to convince themselves that the long-promised street car
service was at last an actual fact and not a fancy of their
imagination". [CCEN]
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July 27: A street railway
car killed a cow owned by Gustav Ernastl at Osceola (near
Calumet). The track runs through the cow pasture after it
leaves the Hecla & Torch Lake railway track. [CCEN]
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September 16:
Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad completes line from Frederic to
East Jordan. [MRRC]
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October 1: East Jordan &
Southern completes line from East Jordan to Bellaire. [MRRC]
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November: Kinnear
track pans east of Dexter on the Michigan Central RR, the state's
first track pan installation, began operation. Track pans
permitted a speeding locomotive to scoop up water without
stopping. The MCRR was the only railroad in Michigan to
install track pans. [MDOT]
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November 27: A
head-on collision on the Wabash Railroad near Seneca (in Lenawee
County) killed 24
persons. [MDOT]
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December 1: The
Detroit & Mackinac Ry. opens its Harrisville cut off, bringing
the main line closer to Lake Huron and running it through Alcona
County's seat of government. [GW/DMAR-1901]
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December 1:
Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw - CK&S - completes Kalamazoo to
Pavilion line. [IT-12/79]
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December 28: The
Escanaba & Lake Superior Railway starts regular service between
Escanaba and Channing. [MDOT]
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Onaway
& North Michigan Ry. builds 5.5 mile line in and around Onaway.
[NK]
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Caro and Lake Huron Railroad
opens line from Caro to Owendale. [MRRC]
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A connection is constructed
between the LS&I and the Munising, Marquette and Southeastern is
built (?) [AAD]
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The Mason and Oceana Railroad
builds an extension to Goodrich. [AAD]
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The Copper Range Railroad extends
its Mill Mine-Painesdale line 12 miles to Freda. The line
is used to transport copper rock from the newly-opened
Trimountain and Champion Mines to the stamp mills at Beacon
Hill, Freda and Redridge. [CRAR]
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The Pere Marquette builds from
Greenville to Stanton. [PM45]
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Pere Marquette puts car ferry
Pere Marquette 17 into Lake Michigan service. [PMHS]
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By 1901, the Michigan Central's
Ogden branch (on the Gladwin Branch) has been abandoned north of
Bentley. [NK]
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Pere
Marquette builds new 12-stall roundhouse in Saginaw. [PMHS]
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Pere Marquette builds depot at
Petosky. Depot continues to exist into 2001.
[IT-12/1974]
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Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
builds depot at Marquette. Depot continues to exist into
2001.
[IT-12/1974]
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CK&S builds roundhouses at
Kalamazoo (6 stalls) and Woodbury (2 stalls). [NYC-2/1989]
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Interurban railway lines
consolidated as Detroit United Railway System. [DWS]
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Michigan Central builds first
track pan east of Dexter. Called Kinnear Track Pans, named
after Wilson Kinnear, Chief Engineer of the Michigan Central.
[MHS]
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Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
builds depot at Lenawee Junction. Depot continues to exist
into 1974.
[IT-12/1974]
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H. K. McHarg, a Director of the
Wabash Railroad, begins buying up all available Detroit &
Mackinac stock. It is feared that the "Gould interests"
are moving in on the D&M but McHarg ultimately ends up running
it himself. [WK]
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Mechanical coal stokers
first used. [STOV]
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The Lima Locomotive Works is
reorganized from the Lima Machine Works. [SAM]
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The American Locomotive Company
is formed by the merger of the Schenectady Locomotive Works,
Brooks Locomotive Works, Danforth, Cooke & Co., Machine Company,
Dickson Manufacturing Company, Manchester Locomotive Works, and
the Richmond Locomotive Works. [SAM]
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The D&M installs a new bridge
over the AuGres River on their Prescott Division. The new
bridge is made of 192 feet of pile trestle and 60 feet of stee
girder. It takes the place of the old bridge and high
trestle of 452 feet in length, which was erected when the road
was built to Alger in 1883. [DMAR-1901]
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the D&M adds a brick coach repair
shop (59' by 90') in Tawas which was required to maintain their
passenger equipment. The machine shop was also enlarged by
a brick addition of 20' by 58'. An air plant was put in,
consisting of an air compressor and air pipes for running air
drills and other air machinery.
At
Tawas shops there has been built a brick coach repair. shop, 59 feet
by 90 feet, which was required to keep up the passenger equipment.
The machine shop was also enlarged by a brick addition 20 feet by 58
feet. In order to facilitate the handling of work in the Tawas shop,
an air plant was put in, consisting of air compressor and air pipes
for running air drills and other air machinery. Fence built during
the year, 15 miles 126 rods.
