Railroad: Lansing Transit Railway Company


Built Lansing Transit Railway → LSMS & NYC → New York Central


Built: 1886.

Became: 50% to Michigan Central, 50% to Lake Shore & Michigan Southern in 1888.

Reference: [MRRC]


Notes


Time Line

1889. October 14. A special from Lansing, Mich., says: While a wrecking crew was engaged in clearing away a freight wreck on the Lansing Transit Railroad Sunday, the hoisting beam of the steam derrick broke and fell upon a group of over a dozen, killing Perter Quinn, conductor of the construction train, George Ruby a machinist, and John Tentill Vest, brakeman. [Evening Republican, Meadville PA]

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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