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Spring: The
Michigan Central builds an 8-stall roundhouse and cinder pits at
Lansing at a cost of $125,000. [RA-12/1/1923]
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Spring: The Pere Marquette
builds a 16-stall brick roundhouse and 100 foot turntable at
Erie, Michigan. [RA-12/1/1923]
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June 28: The
Adrian city street car system is abandoned. [EMR4]
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November: Ottawa
Yard placed in service by Pere Marquette. [PMHS]
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Detroit
& Mackinac RR builds branch from Alpena to Kelly Island Quarry. [ NK]
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Manistee
& North Eastern abandons line from Kaleva to Grayling. [PMHS]
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Van
Sweringen interests purchase Pere Marquette Railroad. [PMHS]
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Pere Marquette builds a 24 stall
locomotive shop at Wyoming Yard in Grand Rapids. They
also building a new freight car shop and water treatment
facility. [PM45]
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Pere Marquette builds a 16-stall
roundhouse at Ottawa Yard, just north of Toledo. It has a
100' long turntable. [PM45]
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PM purchases a fifth
steel car ferry this year. [COHS-8/1997]
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New
coach yard and engine terminal is built for Union Belt Ry. of
Detroit (PM, PRR, Wab). It extends from 15th Street
to 21st Street. It contains eight tracks with a capacity
of 90 cars. Two adjacent tracks south of the main tracks,
so-called "Freight Main", capacity of 25 cars, are also used for
coach yard purposes and were constructed in 1924. [PM45][PMHS]
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Pere Marquete builds their 21st
Street Engine Terminal, which is used by the PM for freight,
passenger and switch engines, as well as the Pennsylvania
Railroad for passenger engines. The terminal has 28
stalls, has a 100' electrically operated turntable, a 500 ton
capacity electrically operated coal dock and an ash pit for 4
engines. [PM45]
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The Pere Marquette installs three
fixed steel trusses on its Saginaw River drawbridge, increasing
its load factor to Coopers E-50. The steel fix trusses
replace two fixed spans built in 1893 and one segment of pile
trestle. [PM45]
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DSS&A replaces their bridge over
the LS&I at Munising Jct. The new bridge is made up
of a timber decking on top of concrete wall supports. [1924 date
in support concrete].
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Two C&NW ore docks burn in
Escanaba. During the fire, E&LS fire cars pumped water
from Little Bay De Noc to keep the C. Reiss Coal Docks from
catching fire as well.
[EDP-12/27/1950]
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Pere Marquette abandons
line from Buchanan to Benton Harbor, 22.5 miles. [PMHS/COHS-8/1997]
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Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.
abandons 60 miles of logging operations in Alger County. [MRRC]
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ALCO builds its first diesel
electric locomotive in cooperation with General Electric. [SAM]