Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
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Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
Great article. I loved it.
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
Do we know when they tore this out?
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
I think operations on the line ceased between 1928 and 1930. Would have been ripped out around that time too.
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
Donald Van Reken wrote a book with lots of photos of this line about 30 years ago. I have it at home. You can still see where the tracks ran many years ago in Wyoming, Grandville, Jamestown, Holland, and Laketown Township. Sure wish we had it now to ride.
Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
Way cool! Thanks for sharing!
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
Comes from The Insulator Gazette Newspaper. Lots of stuff about Hydroelectric development in North America at the turn of the 19th to 20th century...and it is all tied to interurban development...among other things.
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Re: Grand Rapids Holland Interurban
From what I've been able to find the majority of the GRH&C came out around this time, with the segment between Grand Rapids and Grandville holding on until about 1932 when they finally gave up.
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