January 21:  The GTW car ferry Madison hits a sand bar, grounding the vessel and causing $49,200 in damages.  The incident occurred during heavy wind, high seas and drifting ice.  [GTWHS-5/1997]

May 1:  Grosse Pointe Village refuses to allow DUR cars to operate into the village, ending service on the Shore Line.  [EMR4]

June 9:  Detroit & Mackinac Ry abandons the Lincoln Branch from Lincoln to Lincoln Jct.   [MDY33]  Note: [GW] shows this abandonment as June 3.

August 14:  Interurban passenger service between Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids and Grand Rapids and Battle Creek via Gull Lake ends.  The track is abandoned.  [MT/IT-12/79]

August 18:  The Detroit to Wyandotte rail line is abandoned (DSR operates part to the Penn "Y" until January 1, 1931).  [EMR4]

Summer:  Soo Line discontinues dedicated passenger trains on its Gogebic Branch between Bessemer, Ironwood and Wisconsin.  A freight train was made into a mixed train to handle passenger traffic.  [WC-Sp/1996].

November 1:  The Grand Trunk Western RR consolidated 10 subsidiary or component companies to form a single system in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.   [MDOT]

November 30:  Interurban service between Jackson and Kalamazoo ends. [MT]

December 2:  The last interurban car leaves Marshall at 12:15 a.m.  [MT]

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village founded.  Ford begins moving historic buildings to the site from elsewhere.  [BOM/DWS]

Soo Line closes its agency at Upson, on the Gogebic Range.  [SOO-Sp/1996]

The GTW builds a new brick depot at Imlay City.  The depot continues to exist in 1999 as a historical museum.   [MRP-I]

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

The Plymouth Motor Corporation builds their Lynch Road Assembly Plant at 6334 Lynch Road.  [BOM]

The E&LS removes lumber branches at Ralph.  [EDP-12/27/1950]

The Michigan United/MCRR diamond in Kalamazoo, just west of Gull Street, is removed.  [GM]

The first Sperry Rail Detector Car (#102) is put into service on the Wabash.  [SAM]

Rail cars with wooden main sills are banned from interchange.  Cars with truss rod underframes built new or retrofitted remain legal.  [SAM]

Union Switch & Signal conducts tests of Inductive Train Communications (I.T.C.).  [SAM]

The National Car Company is formed as a subsidiary of Fruit Growers Express.  [SAM]

The Detroit Terminal Railroad and the Pere Marquette complete their grade separation project in Fordson (Michigan Avenue) at a cost of $1.109 million. 

The Michigan Central Railroad completes grade separation projects in Hamtramck, Waterman Avenue in Detroit, Fort Street in Detroit, Dearborn, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Pere Marquette completes grade separation projects at Warren Avenue in Detroit.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Pere Marquette adds a second main track between McGrew and the GTW crossing in Flint, a distance of 3.36 miles.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Wabash Railway installs new track and a new icing facility at Oakwood, Michigan.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line adds a second main track between Vienna and Kipf, a distance of 6.28 miles.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Michigan Central Railroad installs two new automatic block semaphore signals from the General Railway Signal Co. at Orion, Michigan on the Bay City Branch over a distance of 1.7 miles.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Pere Marquette installs a "centralized control system" and 55 semaphore US&S signals on 30 miles of track between Flint and Saginaw.  This includes 10 miles of double track and 20 miles of single track.  [RA-1/5/1929]

The Grand Trunk Western installs 73 color-light signals over 65 miles of track between Granger, Indiana and Battle Creek, Michigan.  The equipment was delivered by US&S.  The GTW also installs 3 color-light signals over 4 miles at Lansing, 2 color-light signals on 1.6 miles of track at Ionia, 4 color-light signals on 2.2 miles of track at Pontiac, and 2 color-light signals on 1.6 miles of track at Corunna.  [RA-1/5/1929]