Industry: Peninsular Car Company, Detroit, MI

The Peninsular Car Company was located in the Milwaukee Junction area of Detroit. It was started in 1864, primarily to build logging cars.

Image info: Top, a view of the Peninsular Car Works on Ferry Street in Detroit, in 1884. [Detroit Public Library collection]. 2nd, a builders photo of a Swift refrigerated box car.

Notes

The facility received rail service from the Grand Trunk.

Time Line

1881. February 10. The capital stock of the Peninsular Car Works has been increased to $200,000. T.D. Buhl is President of the corporation, and the remaining directors are Frank J. Hecker, C.H. Buhl, R.A. Alger and Willis E. Walker. [DFP-1881-0210]

1884, The Peninsular Car Company will build a railroad for its own use and the convenience of its employees. The road will run along the south side of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway from Woodward avenue and through to Harper avenue, the northern front of the company's projected new works. [DFP-1884-0329]