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Topic: Michigan Central Railroad


  
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Abel F. Fitch correspondence: 13 letters (1851) written from Detroit, Michigan, to his wife Amanda, concerning his arrest and trial for setting fire to the Michigan Central Railroad depot in Detroit with fellow alleged conspirators because of the railroad's refusal to install fences along their tracks.
William Schuyler Woodruff papers: Diaries (1853-1860) recording his experiences as a student at a preparatory school in Niagara Falls and University of Michigan (Class of 1858), and his teaching experiences in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1860; comments on his travels on the Michigan Central are included.
Michigan Photographers Society photograph collection: 1 photo of a car damaged in a "streetcar riot" in Muskegon, Mich., 1918.
bentley.umich.edu /bhl/mhchome/railroad/rrnamem.htm   (3269 words)

  
 New York Central - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about New York Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The small lines across central New York from which the New York Central was created were built to rival the Erie Canal, and had demonstrated the efficiency of rail as an alternative to barge transport.
The Central originally linked Buffalo and Albany, and connected in the east with two lines running south to New York City – the New York and Harlem (1831; via Chatham) and the Hudson River Railroad (1846; via Hudson, Poughkeepsie, and Peekskill); these later became branches of its system.
The Central long dominated New York City rail traffic, as the Pennsylvania and Erie railroads and other competitors had to run a ferry service to the city from their termini in New Jersey.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /New+York+Central   (511 words)

  
 ipedia.com: New York Central Railroad Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The New York Central Railroad, known simply as the New York Central in its publicity and with the AAR reporting mark of NYC, was a railroad operating in the North-Eastern United States.
In 1900, the Boston & Albany Railroad; was consolidated with the New York Central, although it retained a separate identity.
The New York Central became a fallen flag in 1968 when it joined with its old enemy the Pennsylvania Railroad in the ill-fated merger that produced the Penn Central Railroad.
www.ipedia.com /new_york_central_railroad.html   (426 words)

  
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The road was 270 miles in length, of which 221 were main line in Michigan (6 miles in Illinois and 43 miles in Indiana).
[West Detroit] and Kalamazoo; the FandPM at Wayne, the Ft. Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw at Jackson, the Northern Central Michigan (LSandMS) at Albion, the CandLH at Battle Creek and the GRandI at Kalamazoo).
The Michigan Central had 108 locomotives of 30 ton or greater weight, 92 which were between 20 and 30 tons, and 11 locomotives weighing less than 10 tons.
www.michiganrailroads.com /RRHX/Railroads/MichiganCentral/MichiganCentralHomePage.htm   (657 words)

  
 Michigan, United States State Maps,antique maps,antique globes, historical prints, travel guides, atlases, gazetteers
Senate.) Pair of maps, one of northern Michigan, the smaller of Mackinaw Peninsula.
U.S. Second title: "Geological map of the district between Keweenaw Bay and Chocolate River, Lake Superior, Michigan." Third title: "Section and diagram illustrating the geology of the region between the northern shores of Lake Superior and Michigan." All lithographed by Ackerman, N.Y. Bound into embossed cloth folder.
Double-sided folding wall map with Michigan and Wisconsin on one side and Ohio and Indiana on reverse.
www.murrayhudson.com /antique_maps/us_state_maps/michigan.html   (2253 words)

  
 Special announcement, Michigan Central. / Michigan Central Railroad Company / 1884
Full Title: Special announcement : through cars to Detroit, Toledo, Chicago, St. Louis and the West via Michigan Central.
Over the river in front of the falls on the great double track cantilever bridge...
Published In: Special announcement : through cars to Detroit, Toledo, Chicago, St. Louis and the West via Michigan Central.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps900065-24581.html   (311 words)

  
 USA Freedom Corps: About USA Freedom Corps: History of 736 Jackson Place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After beginning a career as a civil engineer with the Michigan Central Railroad (1848-1851), he was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1853.
Newberry was married twice, to Harriet Robinson in 1855 and Helen Handy in 1859, and served as Provost Marshall of Michigan (1862-64).
Scott opened the Erie and Pittsburgh Railroads In 1861 and a decade later formed the W. Scott Company, which played a major role in the extension of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroads from central Iowa to the Missouri River.
www.usafreedomcorps.gov /content/about_usafc/building   (4766 words)

  
 New York Central Home Page
He started with the railroad when the employees were paid in cash and a pay car visited all the Central's locations.
The New York Central Railroad Company was a corporation of the State of New York, having its principal office at 575 Broadway, in the City of Albany, State of New York.
The New York Central System's fleet of class H (2-8-2 type) locomotives was built in the 1910s and 1920s for main line freight service, but most were soon supplanted in that role by the Mohawks (4-8-2 type) and, on the Boston & Albany, the Berkshires (2-8-4 type).
www.lakemirabel.com /NewYorkCentralHome.html   (2009 words)

  
 Michigan Central Railroad Company
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This historic document has over 10 pages and is over 28 years old.
www.scripophily.net /miccenrailco1.html   (303 words)

  
 Central Michigan Railroad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This site is not affiliated with the Central Michigan Railway.
The Central Michigan Railroad comprises of former New York Central and Grand Trunk Western Railroad trackage in the central area of Michigan.
The CM is owned by the Straits Corporation which was formally affiliated with the Detroit and Mackinac Railway.
www.michiganrailroads.com /MichRRs/Railroads/CMHomePage.htm   (114 words)

  
 Dexter Michigan Central Railroad Viaduct | Ann Arbor District Library
Frederick Blackburn Pelham (Fred Pelham), according to an Ann Arbor News article on February 22, 2000 (page D-1), "designed 18 to 20 bridges for the Michigan Central line between Detroit and Chicago."
This article and one other article say that Pelham was the second fl civil engineer trained at the University of Michigan.
The University's website says "The first African American graduate in Civil Engineering was Fred B. Pelham who completed his degree in 1887."
www.aadl.com /node/1293   (368 words)

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