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Station: Port Huron, MI - Interurban lines
In addition to the GTW, PM and PH&D railroads, Port Huron was connected to the region's vast electric interurban railroad system via a line which came north from New Baltimore. The interurban ran local and limited cars to and from Port Huron and a city line operated in the downtown area.
Photo Info: Top, old interurban rail is being torn up along Military Street north from court Street in downtown Port Huron in 2005. [Dan Meinhard]
Notes
Time Line
1902. The Rapid Railway has an interurban car barn at Port Huron which will accommodate about 40 cars. [MCR-1903]
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