RRHX

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Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum

   

2000

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  • Railroad event or related event in Michigan

  • Important non-railroad event in Michigan or outside.

  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

  • Economic panic or depression        Car ferries.

 

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  • February 23:  Conrail's Milwaukee Jct. interlocking tower in Detroit is closed.  [MT]
  • April 1:  The Soo Line depot at Ashland, Wisconsin burns.  The fire started in a restaurant in the station.  The station is being rebuilt.  [DB]
  • April:  The U. S. District Court in Detroit struck down the state statute that regulated time limits for blocking of automobile grade crossings.  [MRC-7/2001]
  • Summer:  New signals are installed at the former Conrail Rouge Bridge and CP-YD.  These are NYC style tri-color lights which replace searchlight signals.  A new desk-type board is being installed in the Bridge Tower to replace the armstrong levers that are in the tower.  [MRC-1/2001]
  • November:  Lake States Railway abandons lines north of Alpena Junction.   [DJB]
  • December 19:  The Michigan Dept. of Transportation sold the Lenawee County railroad system to the Adrian & Blissfield Railroad Co. for $1.7 million.  [MRC-1/2001]
  • The Short Cut Bridge over the Rouge River in southwest Detroit was opened a record 2,790 times this year.  An average of 45 trains run across the bridge daily, most of them carrying 3-7 cars of molten steel in "hot bottle" cars.  [MRC-10/01]