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Major stops are in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, East Lansing, and Flint. Amtrak began running the Blue Water in 1974 [3] over the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. In 1982 the train was extended from Port Huron to Toronto, Canada, and renamed the International Limited. Service was cut back to the original route in 2004 with the Blue Water name restored ...
The line was 37.34 miles (60.09 km) in length, and connected the Southern Division with the Lansing–St. Johns line. As was customary it ran over local streetcar lines in both Lansing and Jackson, but there was additional street-running in Leslie as well. The Lansing–St. Johns line was constructed in 1902 by the Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis.
The train was renamed the Lake Cities and continued to use Turboliner trainsets until mid-1981. [7]: 202 [8] The Lake Cities schedule allowed both east- and westbound connections with the Chicago—New York Lake Shore Limited, eliminating the need for Michigan travelers to backtrack through Chicago. Budget cuts led Amtrak to discontinue service ...
The Michigan Central Open experience at the train station, located at 2001 15th St. in Detroit, is just getting started and will chug along through the summer, offering plenty of chances to ...
In November 2011, Michigan was awarded $150 million to buy the Kalamazoo–Dearborn portion of the line from Norfolk Southern. Combined with a $196 million federal government grant announced the previous month to improve signaling and track quality, trains will be able to run at 110 mph (177 km/h) on 77% of the length of the Detroit–Chicago ...
Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad 1871 Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad 1866; Grand River Valley Railroad 1870; Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad 1851; Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad 1870; Michigan Air Line Railway 1870; Michigan Midland and Canada Railroad 1878; Saginaw Bay and Northwestern Railroad 1884 Pinconning Railroad 1879
Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad: Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad: PM: 1870 1871 Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad: Detroit and Huron Railway: CN: 1912 1928 Grand Trunk Western Railroad: Detroit and Ironton Railroad: DT&I: 1920 1931 Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad: Detroit, Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad: PM: 1871 1876
Drawing of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad. On April 22, 1833, the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was chartered in the Territory of Michigan, [1] to run from the former Port Lawrence, Michigan, now Toledo, Ohio, near Lake Erie, northwest to Adrian, Michigan, on the River Raisin. The Toledo War soon gave about one-third of the route to the state of ...