Railroad: Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company

VariousChicago & 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

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