Author: Michigan. Department of State Highways and TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Michigan Railroad Needs
Author: Michigan. Department of State Highways and TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Lake Michigan's Railroad Car Ferries
Author: Karl ZimmermannPublisher: Motorbooks International
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Underground Railroad in Michigan
Author: Carol E. MullPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Though living far north of the Mason-Dixon line, many mid-nineteenth-century citizens of Michigan rose up to protest the moral offense of slavery; they published an abolitionist newspaper and founded an anti-slavery society, as well as a campaign for emancipation. By the 1840s, a prominent abolitionist from Illinois had crossed the state line to Michigan, establishing new stations on the Underground Railroad. This book is the first comprehensive exploration of abolitionism and the network of escape from slavery in the state. First-person accounts are interwoven with an expansive historical overview of national events to offer a fresh examination of Michigan's critical role in the movement to end American slavery.
Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record
Author: Highway Needs in Michigan
Author: Michigan Good Roads Federation. Highway Study CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Copper Range Railroad
Author: Clarence J. MonettePublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Great Lakes Car Ferries
Author: George W. HiltonPublisher: Montevallo Historical Press
ISBN: 0965862453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
In the United States and Canada, there was a time when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across rivers and lakes was to load them on specialized ships customized for this purpose. With this functional principle in mind, shipbuilders around the Great Lakes and elsewhere built an amazing variety of vessels to do the job quickly, efficiently, and safely. George W. Hilton’s book tells the story of these boats and of the hardworking, heroic men who day after day, year after year, battled mechanical problems, ice, and bad weather, to get the cars safely across the water.
Michigan Railroads & Railroad Companies
Author: Graydon M. MeintsPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 087013938X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies is an invaluable reference manual for everyone interested in regional transportation history, the history of railroading, and Michigan history in general. It contains complete, cross-referenced listings for every company formed to operate a railroad in the state of Michigan. In addition to the comprehensive entries for major lines, Graydon Meints has included details about the many small, common-carrier steam and electric companies, logging roads, and numerous other primitive and contemporary rail systems. This encyclopedic reference guide also contains information on the so-called "paper railroads," companies that were projected but which never laid a foot of track. Michigan Railroads is divided into three parts. One includes alphabetical entries for the actual and intended railroad companies themselves, the date and purpose for their organization, and a brief history from their origins to their dispositions. Included in this portion of the work are a number of railroad "family trees" showing the corporate antecedents of the largest of the rail lines operating in the state today. Another contains a chronology of significant corporate events; it works as a useful finding aid for accessing source data contained in the first section. A third contains a statewide county-by-county listing of railroads, both paper and real.
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