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Michigan Railroad Personalities
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Russell Alger - Civil War General, Logger, Logging Railroad Owner
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James M. Ashley - Person behind the Ann Arbor Railroad
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Henry Crapo - Governor of Michigan and President of the Pere Marquette
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James F. Joy - President of the Michigan Central Railroad
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James McMillan - Senator, owned a number of railroads and car companies
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Henry Ford - auto pioneer and owner of the DT&I
Le Roy Barnett retired in 2001 as an archivist with the State of Michigan Archives. Throughout his career, Dr. Barnett made note of railroad trivia as well as interesting railroad facts which he has shared with RRHX. We hope that you enjoy reading them. Many of these "sayings", slogans, film names will bring back memories for you. If you have other factual bits of trivia to add, there is a hot-link on each page for you to use.
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