Civil war continues, ends on April 9.
June: Marquette & Ontonagon RR opens Ishpeming-Champion line. [MCR-75/MDOT/MSL/AAD]
July: Marquette & Ontonagon RR opens line from Winthrop Jct. to Lake Michigamme. [MRRC]
December: Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad opens line from Jackson to Mason. [MCR-75]
Bay City and Portsmouth Railway opens 10 mile long line from Saginaw & 34d Streets in Bay City, via Saginaw (6th and Water Streets) to Portsmouth and other points. (street railway). [MRRC]
A railroad is extended from Three Rivers to Schoolcraft. [AAD]
MCRR opens first Dearborn station - Mid-1860's - [DPG]
First Escanaba ore dock is built. [MSL]
Calumet Mine (copper) opens. [MSL]
The Hecla Mine (copper) also opens. [MSL]
First horizontal tank car is placed in railroad service. [STOV]
Manual block system of train control is developed by Ashbel Welch. [STOV]
First domestic steel rails are produced in the United States, at the Wyandotte (Michigan) Mills, using the Bessemer process. [HWC][STOV]
Cleveland Iron Mining Co. purchases first steam powered pump and steam powered hoisting engine. These will replace work horses in 1869. [IOHT]
The C&NW builds its first roundhouse in Escanaba. Over time the building will have as manyu as 25 stalls. [:EDP-1961-1018]
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