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The Michigan Railroad History Conference will be virtual this year (the in-person conference will return in 2022). The virtual event will be on September 18, 2021 from 1000hrs to 1230hrs (10 am to 12:30pm). This year there will be two talks: One by Paul Trap "Michigan's Earliest Railroads" - Michiga...

The branch into Lyons long predates the automotive plant. The branch ended at a Pere Marquette freight house and a mill where the forlorn plant now sits. During WWII there was a munitions plant where the automotive factory is. Chrysler acquired the plant from American Auto Felt Corporation in 1965 a...

Hello, see if the attached map comes through (first time trying to post an image). This is an excerpt from the upcoming Michigan Railroad History Conference booklet that shows Lansing's railroads and this part should show the relationship between the GTW (in orange) and the PM (in blue) in the area ...

Hello, The 13th Michigan Railroad History Conference will be in Lansing on October 17th. We have and exciting slate of speakers for this year’s conference: 1. Keynote Speaker: Larry Baggerly: "New York Central-Revisited--in Detroit" 2. Chuck Geletzke: "We Need These Cars Tonight! ...and Several Clos...

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Hello, I have a version of that cabinet card as well (although mine is in much rougher shape) and appears to have belonged to one of the men in the photo – last name Randall. Mine has a pencil notation of Bancroft (on the GTW main). The view also matches up with the Sanborn map of Bancroft and the p...

Hello, The Ontonagon RR main was from Ontonagon west to Green then south. They had a branch west from Green to Iron River Junction. The Milwaukee had trackage rights over the Ontonagon RR from Ontonagon to Iron River Junction (the Ontonagon was never controlled by the St Paul rather by the Greenwood...

Its not Menominee, I believe the only Soo Line involvement in Menominee/Marinette was the very brief period after they purchased the Milwaukee Road in 1985 until their little battle with the E&LS ended —historically the twin cities would have been served by the Wisconsin & Michigan, the St Paul, the...

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That would be the correct local. Manistique has a pretty fascinating rail history with the MStP&SSM, the M&LS, a logging railroad, a furnace railroad, the paper mill railroad, and the carferry.

Could that line thats looks to cross the main, be the old AA car ferry line? Didn't the annie send cars up to Manistuqe for a short period which went up to Dotty where the LS&I would take them? That would be the former Manistique & Lake Superior, now the lead into Manistique Paper (you can see the o...

Manistique -- State highway crossing on west side of town