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Depression
continues.
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January 1: Hancock &
Calumet is acquired by the Mineral Range Railroad. [MRRC]
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March 26: The Copper Range
Railroad enters bankruptcy. Eight locomotives and 254
freight cars are retired from service. [CRH]
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April 15: The Marquette
City and Presque Isle Street Ry. abandons operations in
Marquette. [SOO-S/1994]
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September 12: Pere
Marquette RR abandons line from Elmdale to Freeport, 6.19 miles,
and removes the track. [PMHS/COHS-8/1997][L&H]
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Winter: The conditions of
ice floes covered Lake Michigan from shore to shore and stady
winds packed the drifting cakes into solid masses and windrows,
the worst winter on record. Pere Marquette boats continue
to cross the Lake. [COHS-8/1997]
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DSS&A abandons line between
Marengo Jct. and Superior, WI. Uses running rights over
Wisconsin Central/Northern Pacific to reach Duluth. [SSJB]
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The E&LS removes a portion of the
Mashek branch, out as far as the Escanaba River.
[EDP-12/27/1950]
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The New York Central abandons
their line from Sturgis, through Findley to Battle Creek.
[NK]
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DSS&A removes part of their
branch line between Alston and the Firesteel River. This
is part of their branch line from Keweenaw Bay to Maas.
[SSP]
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D&M's Prescott branch gains
traffic from the transport of crude oil from the Prescott
area. [GW]
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The PM depot at Freeport was torn
down. [L&H]