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The cover from the Ann Arbor Railroad and Steamship Lines 1911 passenger timetable. The Ann Arbor Railroad (reporting mark AA) was an American railroad that operated between Toledo, Ohio, and Elberta and Frankfort, Michigan (about 294 route miles) with train ferry operations across Lake Michigan.
These locomotives were of 2-10-2 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation, or 1′E1′ in UIC classification; this arrangement was commonly named "Santa Fe" in the United States. At the time, the Santa Fe was the largest non- articulated type in common use, primarily in slow drag freight duty in ore or coal service.
The Steam Railroading Institute is an organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and operation of historical railroad equipment and items. [6] It operates a heritage railroad which offers occasional passenger excursion trains using steam locomotives : Pere Marquette 1225 and Chicago and North Western 175 .
The Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railroad entered bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893, and James Ashley resigned as president in 1894. The company was reorganized in 1895 as the Ann Arbor Railroad. [15] In 1896, the Ann Arbor completed a 7-mile (11 km) cutoff north of Ann Arbor, bypassing the original route via Leland. [16]
In 1982, the train was moved to the former Ann Arbor Railroad steam backshop — a repair shop for steam engines — in Owosso to continue the restoration work, and three years later, was finally ...
The first steam locomotives operated in early 1837, with an average speed of 10 miles per hour (16 km/h). [3] [4] Further north, the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad had completed a 12.3-mile (19.8 km) line from Detroit north to Royal Oak. Operations began in 1838 but would be horse-drawn until the following year.
The ALCO RS-1 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Alco-GE between 1941 and 1953 and the American Locomotive Company from 1953 to 1960. ALCO subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works built an additional three RS-1s in 1954. This model has the distinction of having the longest production run of any diesel locomotive for the North American ...
An interurban streetcar operated by the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor Railway, successor to the Ypsi-Ann, races over the Michigan Central Railroad east of Michigan Center. The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, known informally as the Ypsi-Ann, was an interurban railroad operating in southeastern Michigan; it was the first such ...