World War I continues.

January 1:  The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and the Michigan Central are merged into the New York Central System.   [MDOT][MT]

May 15:  The Delray Connecting Railroad receives trackage rights on 10 miles of DT&I track, from Detroit to the Solvay quarry at Sibley.  [EMR4]

May 17:  Michigan Railway traction line is completed from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids.   [IC-12/79]

December 15:  Toledo-Detroit Railroad completes line from Toledo to Dundee (later DT&I).  [MRRC]

Pere Marquette abandons line from Stratford to Spencer, 15 miles.    [COHS-8/1997]

MCRR continues to maintain a greenhouse just west of the Ypsilanti depot to raise cut flowers that were used in the dining cards on the MCRR system and depots in Detroit.  The new Michigan Central depot had recently opened, and its dining rooms and restaurants were the height of elegance at the time.  [IT-12/1974]

The E&LS bulds a short branch line north off the main line at Hendricks.  [EDP-12/27/1950]

The Iron River, Stambaugh and Crystal Falls Street Ry. extends its lines to the Village of Gaastra in Iron County.  [ICHS]

Grand Trunk builds new depots at Ovid and Owosso.  Depots continue to exist as of 1974.  [IT-12/1974]

The main line of the Michigan Central Railroad operated thirteen regular trains weekdays between Detroit and Chicago each way.  One additional train ran between Detroit and Kalamazoo, two others between Kalamazoo and Chicago, and two more between Detroit and Ypsilanti.  The fastest running time between Detroit and Chicago was 6 hours and 21 minutes.  [AAD]

The Copper Range builds new stations  at Painesdale and Hubbell. [CRH]

Four passenger trains ran north from Detroit to Bay City, with three continuing on to Gaylord.  Two trains ran all the way to Mackinaw City.  [AAD]

Soo Line removes its engine house at Ironwood.    [SOO-W/1996]

Twenty-five (25) trains per day served the town of Alma.  [AAD]

Henry Ford acquires a 2,000-acre site in Fordson (now Dearborn) for the Ford Motor Company Rouge complex.  It is conceived as a self-sufficient industrial city.  It had not only adqueate rail service, but the potential for a harbor as well.  [BOM]

Position light signals are installed on the Pennsylvania Railroad.  [SAM]

The Michigan Central Railroad receives a new wrecking crane which is built to operate either by steam or electricity.  It is for use in or adjacent to the Detroit River tunnel.  Electricity for the crane is provided by the third rail or from a flexible cable.  The unit can also operate under steam power, provided by a separate locomotive.  The unit is 120 ton.  [RA-1/4/1918]