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  • February:  The Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) is created, following the lease of the Detroit & Mackinac Railway to management officials.  [MRC-2/1995]

  • June 12:  Craig Burroughs leases the Mellen, WI to Bessemer, MI line from the Wisconsin Central and begins freight operations.  The operation, which used a former LS&I GE U23C, ceased on February 12, 1995.

  • June:  The Union Belt of Detroit is dissolved.  [EMR4]

  • November:  Work starts on enlarging one tube of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.  It is completed on April 17, 1994.  [SOO-Su/1994]


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