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1907

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  • June 29:  D&M leases Alabaster Branch (4 miles) to Erie & Michigan Railway and Navigation Company.  Lease continues until January, 1948. [HI/MRRC]

  • July 20:  Michigan's worst railroad accident, a head-on collision of two Pere Marquette trains east of Salem due to misread train orders, kills 30 persons.   [MDOT]

  • December 4:  Pere Marquette RR relinquishes control of the Toledo Railway & Terminal Co.  [PMHS]

  • Ann Arbor RR builts a 100-room hotel in Frankfort, known as the Hotel Frontenac.  [MDOT]

  • The Keweenaw Central RR is completed to Mandan from Calumet, most northerly railroad in Michigan.   [MDOT]

  • The Michigan Railroad Commission is created.  [MDOT]

  • The Detroit & Mackinac Ry. begins construction of their branch from Alpena (Hillman Jct.) to Hillman.  [WK]

  • MM&N moves its round house and shops from South Manistique to Manistique itself, just north of the depot and office building on Deer Street.  The roundhouse is enlarged to six stalls. [AATHA-W/1990]

  • Grand Trunk builds depots in West Bay City, Kalamazoo and Port Huron.   [IT-12/79][IT-12/1974]

  • Grand Trunk builds depot at Pigeon.  Depot continues to exist into 1974.  [IT-12/1974]

  • The Huron Portland Cement plant at Alpena begins production.  [GW]

  • The Pere Marquette builds a new wooden depot in Hemlock.  It is later moved to Saginaw to house a museum.  [MRP-I]

  • The PO&N builds a replacement depot at Cass City, a block structure which is almost identical in design to the wooden depot it replaced.  [IT-5/80]

  • The Wisconsin & Michigan acquire trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road between Quinnesec and Iron Mountain.  [MW]

  • Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. opens a private line to its quarry near Rogers City.   [NK/MRRC]

  • Pere Marquette Railroad retires it's last narrow gauge locomotive, a 4-4-0 "D".  [PMHS]

  • The Packard Motor Company opens a plant on Chalmers Avenue.  [BOM]

  • The railroad car building business reaches it's peak in Detroit, employing over 9,000 men with an annual production value of $28 million.  Two big freight car plants build 100 cars a day in Detroit.  [HWC]