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  The first decade of Michigan railroading...

Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum

 

1830's Overview

Key:

  • Railroad event in Michigan

  • Important non-Michigan railroad event

  • Improvement in Technology         Mining.

  • Railroad built or extended

  • Railroad abandoned and/or removed

  • Economic panic or depression         Car ferries.

 

Info Sources

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1830-59 Menu
 
  • Railroads begin in Michigan.
  • The long tradition of naming locomotives, rather than numbering them, begins.  [AAD]
  • 1830’s: The Detroit and Shelby Railroad operates between what is later called Milwaukee Jct. and Shelby. It is s horse drawn route which transported farm products. In the 1870’s, the Detroit and Bay City uses this right of way. [CRP1]

 

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