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		To accomplish this goal, the State of Michigan purchased the portion of the Ann Arbor Railroad between Ann Arbor and Toledo in March 1976 and the remainder of the Ann Arbor Railroad, including the car ferries, in 1980.
		The trustee for the estate purchased the portion of the Ann Arbor Railroad between Ann Arbor and Toledo in September 1985.
		Ann Arbor Railroad is commonly referred to as the "Crown Jewel" of the Regionals.
	www.annarbor-railroad.com /history.html (447 words)

	Ironton Home Page
		Ironton was founded in 1849 by John Campbell along the banks of the Ohio River, and today is recognized as Ohio's southernmost city and the seat of Lawrence County.
		The city of Ironton was founded in 1849 and was built in the heart of Hanging Rock Region, once the largest center of pig iron in the world.
		As a terminal on the Iron Railroad and as a shipping port on the Ohio River, Ironton grew rapidly, becoming the county seat of Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1851.
	www.ironton-ohio.com /history.html (400 words)

	Breif History of the DT&I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Detroit Southern was organized in 1901 with the consolidation of the DandLN and the OS.
		The poor financial condition of the railroad was plainly evident during this period, culminating in bankruptcy in 1903.
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton was a truly unique railroad in its continuous rising and falling from the favor of fortune.
	www.dtirr.com /dtihist.html (1609 words)

	Pic of the Month
		Initially used for high-speed service between Detroit and Chicago it would have been relegated to lighter passenger duties and ultimately (at least judging by its condition) freight service.
		It is intriguing that a freight railroad with minimal passenger service would acquire a virtually obsolete turn-of-the-century passenger locomotive, but the DT under Henry Ford's leadership had a reputation for rigorous and sometimes idiosyncratic maintenance and up-grading policies.
		An extensive rebuild was undertaken at the Rouge Plant's Fordson shops that not only included a new firebox and the addition of superheating to the repaired boiler but also the addition of a cast aluminum chair for the engineer and nickel-plated appliances throughout.
	www.thehenryford.org /exhibits/pic/2000/00.jun.html (321 words)

	Ironton City Guide and Yellow Pages at SuperPages.com
		Ironton, OH Extensive ore pockets in the district once gave Ironton a thriving iron industry; the first charcoal furnace north of the Ohio River started producing pig iron here in 1826.
		Ironton was the southern terminus for the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton (DTandI) Railroad.
		Ironton is now an important industrial city and home to the large plants of many companies.
	www.superpages.com /cities/cp/oh/ironton (153 words)

	Ironton, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		and the fact that the hills to the north encompassed very rich iron-ore. The location of Ironton was chosen for its position along the Ohio River, which would allow for transport of the much-needed commodity, iron-ore, and the slope of the land itself, which facilitated movement of the raw material to the local blast furnaces.
		England, France, and Russia all purchased iron for warships from here due to the quality; iron produced in Ironton was used for the USS Monitor, the United State's first ironclad ship.
		Ironton was also known for its lax attitude towards sin and vice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ironton,_Ohio (1554 words)

	Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DTandI) (AAR reporting marks DTI) was a railroad that operated between its namesake cities in Michigan and Ohio between 1905 and 1982.
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad was organized in 1905 through the merger of the Detroit and Lima Northern Railway and the Ohio Southern Railway.
		In 1980, the DTandI was acquired by the Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Detroit,_Toledo_and_Ironton_Railroad (504 words)

	Detroit Toledo And Ironton Railroad
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, unlike most railroads, passed over the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement and bought 15 "Decapods" in 1918.
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad bought 6 Berkshires from the Lima Locomotive Works in two orders; 4 ordered in 1935 (road numbers 700 through...
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad was organized in 1905 through the merger of the...
	www.3d-perfection.com /railroad-search/railroad-search1.html (251 words)

	Railroad Name Index--D
		My story of the Detroit and Mackinac Railway: Personal reminiscence (1940) of George L. Wakeman of the development of the railroad, especially relating to the work of James Dudley Hawks.
		Predecessors Detroit, Howell and Lansing; Ionia and Lansing
		Alger papers: Copies of outgoing correspondence (1885-1886) concern railway dispute between the Detroit, Lansing and Northern and the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan.
	bentley.umich.edu /bhl/mhchome/railroad/rrnamed.htm (3252 words)

	Since 1950
		Typical of railroads around in 1950 but gone in half a century was the C&WC.
		An arrangement with the Wabash provided that railroad with entrance trackage and terminal facilities in the city itself.
		In 1961 the two railroads were merged to create the Soo Line.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/Since19501.html (708 words)

	Interstate Commerce Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ICC's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers.
		Other potent issues included alleged attempts by railroads to obtain influence over city and state governments and the widespread practice of granting free transportation in the form of yearly passes to opinion leaders (elected officials, newspaper editors, ministers, and so on) so as to dampen any opposition to railroad practices.
		Some behavior was presumably less common; the muckraker Charles Edward Russell claimed that the railroad that served his hometown had refused to ship newsprint to a newspaper editor because the editor had attacked the railroad in print.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Act (1872 words)

	The D T & I Car Shops
		The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Company (DTandI) was once known as the Detroit Southern Railroad Company.
		Prior to 1920, the railroad had been operated by six different corporations, had been in receivership four times, and had been operated for two and one-half years by a bondholders committee.
		On February 28, 1951, the controlling interest was acquired by the Pennsylvania and Wabash railroads, and passenger service between Springfield and Jackson was discontinued on May 8, 1954.
	www.jacksonohio.org /dti.htm (1766 words)

	Archives: Story
		They all huddled together roasting hot dogs — probably because their final was not your run-of-the-mill test, it was a hands-on lesson in local history and a way of life buried underground for years.
		On Tuesday, a group of students from instructor Dave Lucas’ class — Cultural Inquiry in Diversity in Familiar and Foreign Contexts — ventured into an old Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway tunnel on a gravel road in the Porter Gap area of Upper Township.
		Grand Trunk Western Railroad bought the company in the early 1980s and the tracks south of Washington Courthouse were abandoned.
	www.irontontribune.com /articles/2006/10/28/news/news335.txt (583 words)

	P #7 Ironton - The end of the DT&I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Looking NE from the intersection of Railroad St. and 8th St., The DTandI passes under Highway 52 and enters the streets of Ironton, Ohio.
		The Royersville tunnel is about 5 miles to the north of this spot (as the crow flies), while the big Chessie yard at West Russell, KY lies about a mile and a half to the West.
		The church is a prominent feature of this section of Ironton and is beautifully displayed on page 114 in the book, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad In Color.
	users.hargray.com /stevie/srp7.html (504 words)

	Detroit Toledo and Ironton SD38's For MSTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The DTandI Railroad (better known as Henry Ford's railroad), can have it's history traced back to the Iron Railway which was incorporated in 1849.
		Henry Ford purchased the DTandI in the Summer of 1920 after the railroad had gone through many changes, including it's last bankruptcy of 1908.
		Henry Ford reworked everything about the railroad, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in restructuring efforts.
	www.3d-perfection.com /railroad-page-11.htm (193 words)

	The City of Woodhaven History
		Thousands of years before Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac settled Detroit in 1701, Native Americans called this place home; the Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa and Wyandots all hunted the forest and fished the streams and lakes.
		This American Industrial Revolution prompted an explosion of manufacturing in Detroit and the surrounding area – making the region a key center for trade and transportation.
		And the Detroit-Toledo corridor began to move west, away from the Detroit west, away from the Detroit River, and into the midst of the Downriver area.
	www.woodhavenmi.org /Community/History/index.asp (1178 words)

	Media.Ford.com: TODAY in Ford History--Nov. 29
		Ford, who was chief engineer of Detroit Edison while developing his first cars at the turn of the century, designed and built the locomotiveâs mechanical parts at Ford Motor Companyâs plant in Highland Park, Mich., while the electrical equipment was built to his specifications by Westinghouse Electric.
		Ford, who was chief engineer of Detroit Edison while developing his first automobile at the turn of the century, designed the locomotive to use both alternating current and direct current.
		Four years later, frustrated by railroad regulations under the Interstate Commerce Commission, Henry Ford sold the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
	media.ford.com /article_display.cfm?article_id=13796 (477 words)

	Quality Railroad Books by Cam-Tech Publishing
		The logistics included passage over 22 railroads and two street railways involving 42 locomotives, approximately 80 pieces of passenger equipment and ferry moves.
		In a time of innovation the electric railway was the answer to many problems of transportation not addressed by the steam railroad.
		From the founding of the railroad, to the establishment of a small railroad construction camp to a major rail center and the abandonment of the railroad, here is a story well worth reading.
	canteenbooks.com /rr_books.htm (718 words)

	Daily Independent (Ashland, KY) - Finishing touches for 2-year project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		IRONTON — Students from Ohio University-Southern participating in a project called “Porter Gap, a Microcosm of Appalachia” for the past two years, will be putting the finishing touches on the project in the next 10 days.
		On Tuesday, they plan to hold a class at an old Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroad tunnel along Porter Gap and also have a meal for residents a week from Sunday.
		Porter Gap Road is a four-mile section of road north of Ironton.
	www.dailyindependent.com /local/local_story_294001142.html (576 words)

	City of Melvindale \| Melvindale History
		The Allens originally came from New York State, and the elder Allen was born in the midst of the stirring days of the Revolutionary War.
		It was surrounded by Schaefer Road, the Wabash Railroad and Dix Toledo Road.
		It is located at the end of Wall Street and the New York Central Railroad siding on old Reeves’ farm that a man named Eichold later rented.
	www.melvindale.org /community/history.asp (1071 words)

	Steamtown Operating Locomotives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But instead of selling it to some railroad or industry, the Baldwin company retained the locomotive for switching duties at their massive Eddystone Plant.
		The switcher, after serving many years for BLW, was sold to Jackson Iron and Steel of Jackson, Ohio where it switched empty cars into the plant and loaded cars out to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad -- the two railroads connecting with the plant.
		It was sold to a private owner in Pennsylvania in 1961, and in 1982 it was sold to the Gettysburg Railroad.
	www.nps.gov /stea/oploc.htm (1336 words)

	Railroad Collection Index--P
		The collection includes about 40 photos of fences along railroad tracks, many of them taken as trains were passing.
		Palmer was an investor in, and developer of, mines and railroads in the state's Upper Peninsula, particularly the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon.
		Records of railroad companies (mainly Michigan lines) absorbed with the merger of the New York Central Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company into the Penn Central Transportation Company.
	bentley.umich.edu /bhl/mhchome/railroad/rrcollp.htm (450 words)

	Tourist Season
		Several years ago, I wrote an article about the incident, but this last week, while I was at a museum conference in Detroit at The Henry Ford museum, I had an opportunity to spend half a day in the Benson Ford Research Center.
		I had called to make an appointment the week before, so they already had Box 131 and a pair of white gloves ready for me. A friend of mine had copied some of the letters in the file, but I was able to have copies made of the rest of the file.
		He was Vice President of Ford’s Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad and he had power of attorney to manage the financial affairs of Henry and Clara Ford.
	www.leroyny.com /news/2004/0705/Historical (836 words)

	GTW River Spur
		This short stretch of railroad has a long and interesting history, and was instrumental for the development of Downriver Detroit heavy industry.
		As the Detroit automotive industry flourished, more online industry was built and soon Downriver Detroit became one of the most heavily industrialised areas in the midwest.
		The Delray Connecting Railroad acquired all of the former DTandI north of the bridge on Zug Island.
	knorek.com /RR/SAA/DetroitLine/GTWRiverSpur.htm (1667 words)

	DT&I Junction - June-1980 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is pictured on the bottom of page 299 of the Scott D. Trostel book, The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad.
		They were probably built for the Norfork and Western RR as Trostel indicates that the DT&I acquired them in 1977 through an equipment firm from the Norfolk Southern Railway.
		The other side of this caboose can be viewed on page 104 in the book The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad in Color by Hickcox and DeVenne.
	users.hargray.com /stevie/srpc.html (222 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As was the case of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Company Rouge Cutoff (built in the late 1920's), it was a late bloomer of the Detroit Railroad scene, created to ease congestion as well as to provide a company owned gateway to the region's fast-growing automotive business.
		To gain access to the region PRR used the Pere Marquette Railroad from Alexis (near Toledo, OH) to Romulus, and the Wabash Railroad from Romulus to Delray.
		The sum total Detroit area PRR properties were the north end of the PRR Toledo Division, which started at milepost 0.0 Toledo Junction (which was on the Fort Wayne Division just west of Mansfield, OH).
	knorek.com /RR/SAA/LincolnSec/LincolnHist.htm (200 words)

	A Bibliography of the Toledo and Ohio Central
		A Bibliography of the Toledo and Ohio Central
		Dimensions and Classification of Locomotives of the Toledo and Ohio Central Ry., Zanesville and Western Ry.
		Corning, Ohio - circa 1919: The Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, The Kanawha and Michigan Railroad
	www.members.kconline.com /plank/tocbibl.htm (830 words)

	Detroit Toledo & Ironton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leon's layout has since been torn down, he has plans to build a new layout in the near future.
		I train passing through the town of Ironton, Ohio.
		The AA RS loaner is working the industries on the south side on Ironton, OH.
	clinchfieldcountry.com /mr_layouts/detroit_toldeo_ironton.htm (111 words)

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