January 1:  Detroit Department of Street Railways begins bus service.  [DWS]

July 1:  Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co. abandons 7.5 miles of Blaney and Southern Railway in Schoolcraft County.  [MRRC]

September 27:  "The Red Arrow", popular Detroit-New York passenger train names for Michigan's Red Arrow infrantry division of World War I, begins service on the PRR.   [MDOT]

MCRR line from Slocum Jct. (Trenton) to Stony Island (Grosse Isle) abandoned.  [MRRC]

The DT&I RR begins use of a Ford-built 5,000 HP electric locomotive, the most powerful in the world at the time, between the Ford Route plant at Dearborn and Flat Rock.  [MDOT]

First diesel-electric locomotive is used in regular switching service.  [STOV]

The Wabash RR obtains control of the Ann Arbor Railroad.   [MDOT]

The Pere Marquette builds a two-chute, 250 ton coal dock at Baldwin.  [PM45]

Pere Marquette builds a 500-ton coal dock at Ludington.  [PM45]

The Pennsylvania Railroad equips its passenger trains with dictionaries for crossword puzzle addicts.  [IT-4/1975]

The Uniroyal plant is opened on East Jefferson Avenue near Belle Isle.  [BOM]

The Copper Range Railroad purchases a bus line from Painesdale to Lake Linden and names it the Copper Range Motor Bus Company. [CRH]