Railroad: Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line Railway Company, The

Various → Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line Railway → Detroit United Railway

Built: 1904 acquired Toledo & Monroe, and the Monroe Traction company.

Operated for 2 years.

Became: Detroit United Ry. in 1906.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

This was an electric railroad. Reorganized as the Eastern Michigan Toledo railroad in 1928. [MRRC]

Image info: Top, a Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Shore Line train crovves over the Detroit Southern Railway near Trenton in 1907. [Street Railway Journal, 1905]. 2nd image, the motorman and conductor poses with DM&TSL car 7095 near Monroe in 1915.

Time Line

1904. November 4. The DM&TSL will be formally opened tomorrow, when the through service between the two cities (Toledo and Detroit) will begin. The event will be celebrated by the officials of the line taking a party through on special cars. A delegation from the board of commerce will go, and the party will be met at Monroe by the chamber of commerce of Toledo, which will accompany the Detroiters to the Maumee city, where dinner will be served. The overhead crossing at the Wabash road has been completed and the new bridge across the Rouge is now ready fo use. [DFP-1904-1104]