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Industry
- Industrial History of Southwest Detroit before the auto - Thomas Klug, Marygrove College, 1999
- Michigan's Iron Cobweb by Fred Olds - 1973 - [RLHS]
Locomotives
- Nahma Northern Railroad Locomotive No. 5 [Nahma Historical Society]
Railroads
- Boyne City Railroad History
- Detroit Terminal Railroad - 1941
- Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Short Line - 1905 [Street Railway Journal]
- Doubling The Load Capacity Of An Old Iron Railroad Viaduct - PM High Bridge - 1913 [Railway Age Gazette]
- Duluth, South Shore &Atlantic - The Last Decade - 1960
- Expedites Terminal Moves (Union Belt) - 1955 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
- Ford Railroad Has Unique Operating Practices - [Railway Age] 1935
- Interurban Link Between Detroit and Toledo - [Street Railway Jounal] 1905
- Jackson & Battle Creek Railway [Street Railway Journal] 1904
- Michigan Railway's 24,000 volt Third Rail Line [Electric Railway Journal]
- Toledo Railway and Terminal Company - 1903 [RA-1903-0911]
Railroad Facilities
- New Algoma Central Engine House and Shops [Railway Age Gazette] - 1912
- New Hocking Valley Coal Dock at East Toledo - 1914 [Railway Age Gazette]
- New Michigan Central Yard at Detroit [Railway Age]
- South Bend: NYC-GTW Track Elevation and Relocation - 1930 [Railway Age]
- South Bend: NYC New "HF" Tower [Railway Signaling]
Signaling
- Canadian Pacific Installs Centralized Traffic Control - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]
- Centennial of the Morse Telegraph - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]
- Centralized Traffic Control on the Baltimore & Ohio - (1932) - [Railway Signaling]
- C&O Has Good Ideas in CTC - 1958 [Railway Signaling]
- CTC Saves Time for Freights (PM Northern Reg) - 1955 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
- CTC Solves Operating Problems on the PM - 1945 - [Railway Signaling]
- Delray Tower - War-Time Replacement of Interlocking on the PM - 1946 [Railway Signaling]
- GTW Installs CTC on 37 Miles of Busy Single Track (Holly Sub) - 1953 - Railway Signaling and Communications]
- Interlocking in the 1870's (GTW M.A.L. Crossing) - [The Signal Engineer]
- Modern Signaling on a Division (PM Waverly) - 1949 - [Railway Signaling & Communications]
- New Interlockers on the Flint Belt Line (PM) - 1923 - [Railway Signaling]
- New Single Track Signals On The Lake Shore (1912) - White Pigeon to Elkhart
- Michigan Central Installs New Interlocker at Belt Line Jct.
- Michigan Central Makes Improvements in Signaling System (Canada) - 1931 - [Railway Signaling]
- New Electric Interlocking (South Bend) - 1930 - [Railway Signaling]
- New Interlockings at Windsor, Ontario - 1940 - [Railway Signaling]
- New York Central Extends South Bend Interlocking - 1935 - [Railway Signaling]
- NYC First to Install Complete Train Dispatching System (CTC-Fostoria) - 1927 - [Railway Signaling]
- NYC Installs Big NX Plant at Fostoria, OH - 1950 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
- Pennsylvania Installs an Interlocking without Derails - (1928-PRR Walbridge) - [Railway Signaling]
- Pere Marquette Installs Centralized Control Signal System (Mt. Morris) - 1928 - [Railway Signaling]
- Pere Marquette Installs CTC (New Buffalo) - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
- Protection at All Crossings (Battle Creek) - 1949 - [Railroad Signaling]
- Pushbutton CTC Machine on NYC (NYC Toledo-Elkhart) - 1957 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
- Remote Control on the Michigan Central (Kalamazoo) - 1938 - [Railway Signaling]
- Simplified Electric Plant at Belt Line Junction - 1929 - [Railway Signaling]
- War-Time Replacement Of Interlocking on Pere Marquette (Delray) - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
- What Kind of Control for Take-Siding Signals - 1940s - [Railway Signaling]
Technology
- Crossing Protection Includes Signals for Directing Trains (MC Belt - 1936] - [Railway Signaling]
- DT&I Tests Radio - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
- Loudspeakers and Interlockings Improve Yard Operations - (PM Grand Rapids) - 1954 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
- Train Telephone Communications - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]
Wrecks
- Accident In Automatic Block Signal Territory (MC Wayne Jct.-1936) - Railway Signaling
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