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The Erie and Kalamazoo was incorporated April 22, 1833, under special act of the Territory of Michigan, now the State of Michigan, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from Toledo, then claimed to be within the Territory of Michigan, to the headwaters of the Kalamazoo River in that Territory.
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 ...
Neither of these projects had made any progress when in 1833 the Michigan Territorial Council granted a charter to yet another company, the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad. [2] The Erie & Kalamazoo was to connect Port Lawrence (now Toledo, Ohio) on Lake Erie to some point on the Kalamazoo River, which flows into Lake Michigan
West Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo, Lake Shore and Chicago Railway: KLS 1905 1925 N/A Kalamazoo, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: PM: 1871 1883 Hastings, Lowell and Northern Michigan Railroad: Kalamazoo and Schoolcraft Railroad: NYC: 1866 1869 Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad: Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad: NYC: 1869 1916 Michigan ...
SEMTA Commuter Rail, also known as the Silver Streak, was a commuter train operated by the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority (SEMTA) and the Grand Trunk Western Railroad between Detroit and Pontiac, Michigan. It began in 1974 when SEMTA assumed control of the Grand Trunk's existing commuter trains over the route.
Erie Railroad prospered throughout the mid-1950s, but their profits were simultaneously on a decline. The company's 1957 income was half of that of 1956; by 1958 and 1959, Erie Railroad posted large deficits. The Erie's financial losses resulted in them entering negotiations to merge with the nearby Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was the second railroad to be built and operated in the U.S. state of Ohio (the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was first, beginning operations in Toledo during the Toledo War in 1836). It was also the first railroad company chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. [citation needed]
The Palmyra and Jacksonburgh Railroad was organized in the 1830s as a branch of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad. Both railroads failed in the late 1830s, and the lines were leased to the Michigan Southern Railway (later the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway). In about 1890, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern contracted the Union Bridge ...