August:  The Soo Line loads its last boat load of Gogebic Range iron ore, which was stockpiled from the second to last operating mine - the Cary - at Montreal, Wisconsin.  [LSIOR]

December 23:  DT&I abandons its Petersburg Junction-Lambertville route to Toledo, in favor of trackage rights over the Ann Arbor RR.   [IT-2/80]

DSS&A depot at Chassell is closed.  [SOO-10/1991]

The D&M adds 2,000 feet of yard tracks at it's Big Cut quarry near Millersburg.  [DMAR-1965]

There are 6,408 miles of railroad in Michigan.  [STOV]

The last iron mine on the Gogebic Range is closed.  [LSIOR]

In 1965, less than 600,000 tones of iron ore where shipped through the Ashland port, which compares to about 9 million tons going out over four ore docks in the 1920's.  [LSIOR]