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Car Builder - Central Car and Manufacturing Co.
The Jackson Citizen (29 November 1871) and the Grand Rapids Eagle (2 December 1871) reported that the Central Car and Manufacturing Company of Jackson sent their first manufactured cars -- a shipment of ten platform cars -- to the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore Railroad. They reported that the company already had orders for 300 box and platform cars. Submitted by Carl Bajema.
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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