Railroad: Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR)

This is the city owned and operated street car and bus lines.

Detroit United Railway + others → Detroit Department of Street Railways → Rail operations discontinued

Organized: 1922 ?

Rail operations for about 30 years.

Became: Rail operations discontinued in 1950's.

Reference: [MRRC]

Detroit’s Street Railways. Schramm, Kenneth. Charleston, S. C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Detroit's Street Railways: Volume I: City Lines 1863-1922. Schramm, Jack E., Henning, William H. Chicago: Central Electric Railfans' Assoc., 1978.
Detroit Street Railways: Volume II: City Lines 1922-1956. Schramm, Jack E., Henning, William H. and Andrews, Richard R. and Dworman, Thomas J. Chicago: Central Electric Railfans' Assoc., 1980.

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

[AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
[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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