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Railroad: Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railroad Company
This was the last successor to one of the three railroads which made up the bulk of the Pere Marquette railroad in 1899.
Various → Detroit Grand Rapids & Western Railroad → Pere Marquette Railroad
Consolidated lines: In 1897 (see below).
Operated for: 2 years
Became: PM in 1899
Reference: [MRRC]
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Notes
This line consolidated Detroit, Lansing & Northern, Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit, Saginaw and Grand Rapids, Saginaw Valley and St. Louis, and the Saginaw and Western in 1897. Two years later it merged into Pere Marquette railroad system.
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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