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 2: Two Detroit Monroe & Toledo Short Line interurban cars collide head on at Monroe, killing 10 and injuring 36.

• 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.

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• 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