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1914

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  • June 1:  Au Sable & Northwestern Railway is sold to the Detroit & Mackinac Railway.  [MRRC]  [GW] reports this date as of June 6.

  • July 8:  Detroit, Almont & Northern Railroad opens line to Almont Township. (Detroit United Railway).  [MRRC]

  • July 15:  The D&M is given permission to replace the full interlocking in Cheboygan with a swing gate, where their line crosses the MCRR McArthur Dock Spur.  The gate is to be set against traffic on the D&M.  [MSAI]

  • July 28:  World War I begins.  [DWS]

  • Michigan United Railway moves station operation to an existing building in Kalamazoo.   [IT-12/79]

  • Grand Trunk builds new depot at Capac.  Depot continues to exist as of 1974.  [IT-12/1974]

  • Pere Marquette builds a new coal dock at Ensel Yard, west of Lansing.  The dock has a 150 ton capacity.  [PM45]

  • Pere Marquette builds a new 2-chute, 100-ton capacity coaling station at Boardman Yard in Traverse City.  [PM45]

  • The Highland Park plant of the Ford Motor Company is completed this year.  [BOM]

  • Detroit Terminal Railroad (outer belt) is completed from East Jefferson to Michigan Central Railroad on the west side.  [DWS]

  • The Milwaukee Road opens an extension of its branch line from Crystals Falls to Iron River.  [MSL]

  • The Garden Bay Railroad, which began as a logging route in 1908, begins common carrier service over the 14 miles between arden Village and the Soo Line at Cooks, running two mixed trains daily.  [MSL]

  • The Detroit, Bay City & Western Railroad completes its line from Snover to Sandusky, reaching Sandusky from Bay City, where it was started in 1910.  [Michigan RR History Conference, date unknown/RA-2-26-1915]]

  • The Copper Range builds a siding into Dollar Bay to reach a sawmill and other industries there. [CRH]

  • The Iron River, Stambaugh and Crystal Falls Street Railway opens its line between Iron River and Stambaugh.  [ICHS]

  • COPR rebuilt a business car and names it the “Ranger”. It had a capacity of 27 passengers and was 60 feet long with an observation platform on both ends. [CRH]

  • First use of radio in railroad communications.  [STOV]