Time Line - 1926


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  • January 1: Detroit Department of Street Railways begins bus service. [DWS]

  • July 1: Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co. abandons 7.5 miles of Blaney and Southern Railway in Schoolcraft County. [MRRC]

  • September 27: "The Red Arrow", popular Detroit-New York passenger train names for Michigan's Red Arrow infrantry division of World War I, begins service on the PRR. [MDOT] 

  • November 3: A flood in the Barnes-Hecker Mine in Ishpeming kills 51 miners - the largest mine disaster in Michigan history.
  • MCRR line from Slocum Jct. (Trenton) to Stony Island (Grosse Isle) abandoned. [MRRC]

  • The DT&I RR begins use of a Ford-built 5,000 HP electric locomotive, the most powerful in the world at the time, between the Ford Route plant at Dearborn and Flat Rock. [MDOT] Also reported to be the world's longest locomotive. [NYT-1925-0810:23]

  • First diesel-electric locomotive is used in regular switching service. [STOV]

  • The Wabash RR obtains control of the Ann Arbor Railroad. [MDOT]

  • The Pere Marquette builds a two-chute, 250 ton coal dock at Baldwin. [PM45]

  • Pere Marquette builds a 500-ton coal dock at Ludington. [PM45]

  • The Pennsylvania Railroad equips its passenger trains with dictionaries for crossword puzzle addicts. [IT-4/1975]

  • The Uniroyal plant is opened on East Jefferson Avenue near Belle Isle. [BOM]

  • The Copper Range Railroad purchases a bus line from Painesdale to Lake Linden and names it the Copper Range Motor Bus Company. [CRH] 


 Time line Key:

  • Railroad event in Michigan
  • Event relating to mining
  • Event related to car ferries
  • Event outside of Michigan
  • Improvement in Technology
  • Railroad built or extended
  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed
  • Economic panic or depression

 

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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