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Railroad: Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company
Various → Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway → Grand Trunk Western railroad
Consolidated: 1880 various lines
Operated for 10 years.
Became: Port Huron & Indiana and then GTW in 1890
Reference: [MRRC]
Notes
Time Line
1880. Various lines were consolidaterd into this railroad.
1890. This line became the Port Huron & Indiana and then the Grand Trunk Western.
1903. SNAPSHOT: The Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk Junction railroad employed 20 engineers and firemen, 10 conductors, and 16 brakemen. They also employed 4 b aggagemen, 28 laborers, 30 yardmen and 162 others. The railroad had 67 miles of telegraph wire, and hosted 332 miles of wire from the Western Union Telegraph Co. [MCR-1904]
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