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Car Builders - Other companies
Au Sable Car Works, Au Sable, MI. Builds cars for logging industry. Owned by H.M. Lou's Sons Company. Begin in 1906. [AML-1/13/1906]
Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena - Boyne City car shops. Built most of their wooden flat and box cars. [CB]
Butterworth and Lowe at Grand Rapids (made thousands of logging cars) [CB]
Cadillac City Iron Works. Built Shay locomotives in late 1870's and early 1880's. [SMcD]
Chicago & West Michigan Railroad shops at Muskegon [CB]
Detroit Car Company. [HWC]
Detroit Car and Manufacturing Company. [HWC]
Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad shops at Ionia [CB]
Detroit Locomotive Works (1850's). Built locomotives for the Michigan Central. [Detroit Free Press, 5/27/1855, 11/11/1855, 8/12/1857 in the index at theBurton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library][HWC]
Detroit Street Railway. [HWC]
Grand Rapids & Indiana shops at Grand Rapids [CB]
Grand Trunk Railroad in Detroit. [HWC]
Grand Trunk Port Gratiot "Block I" Car Shops, Port Huron (1882-destroyed by fire in 1913)
Grand Trunk Port Huron Car Shops (1918-2001)
Michigan Central Railroad. [HWC]
Michigan Iron Works at Cadillac (made 7-8 locomotives including the Henderson Shay) [SMcD}
Michigan Iron Works at Grand Rapids (made 4 chain driven geared locomotives in 1878) [CB]
Michigan-Peninsular Car Co., Detroit (1892-1899, became part of American Car and Foundry Co.) [CB]
Muskegon Car and Engine Works (locomotives as well as freight, passenger cars and MOW cars) [CB]
Pullman Company, The - Detroit.
Russell Wheel & Foundry Co. of Detroit (made thousands of logging cars) [HWC][CB]
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