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1.1. Today in RR History    
From:  Mark  Tomlonson


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1.1.  Today in RR History
Posted by: "Mark Tomlonson"  tomlonson at yahoo.com tomlonson
Date: Mon Jun 1, 2009 5:39 am  ((PDT))

June 1, 1867 The Great Western Railway of Canada begins direct  interchange 
of cars with the Michigan Central Railroad at Detroit.

June  1, 1871 The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad agrees to operate the  
Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad for 99 years from date of its  
completion.

June 1, 1881 Detroit, Butler & St. Louis RR (later  Wabash) is completed 
from Montpelier, OH to Detroit, offering a direct route  to St. Louis and 
Kansas City.

June 1, 1905 The Detroit, Toledo &  Ironton first gains control of the Ann 
Arbor Railroad. 

June 1, 1925  Henry Ford begins trial runs on the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 
with two  D-D+D-D electric locomotives. Ford has plans (never realized) to 
extend his  electrification project to a connection with the Virginian 
Railway. Ford's  experiments will inspire the children's book "Tom Swift and his 
Electric  Railway".

June 1, 1929 Interurban operations in Kalamazoo County cease  as the last 
car runs between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek.

June 1, 1999  Conrail operations are taken over by Norfolk Southern 
Corporation and  CSX.

Mark Tomlonson








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