RRHX

  Decline in Michigan railroads begins...

Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum

   

1920's Overview

Key:

  • Railroad event or related event in Michigan

  • Important non-railroad event in Michigan or outside.

  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

  • Economic panic or depression        Car ferries.

 

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  • Early 1920's:  Pere Marquette abandons Rodnew-Chippewa lake branch.  [IT-2/1974]
  • Late 1920's:  The Michigan Central abandons its spur from Mount Forest to Bentley.  [NK]
  • Late 1920's:  The New York Central (LSMS) is elevated through South Bend, Indiana  [LS]
  • The production of iron ore on the Gogebic Iron Range begins to steadily decline in the 1920's.  In the 1920's, 9 million tons of ore per year is shipped from this range through the Soo Line ore dock and the three C&NW ore docks at Ashland, Wisconsin.  [LSIOR]