Michigan Railway Company, 9781611864984
Hardcover
Michigan’s electric railway: connecting industry, shaping history, vanishing before the crash.

Michigan Railway Company

The Northern and Southern Divisions

$139.59

  • Hardcover

    286 pages

  • Release Date

    1 December 2024

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Summary

Michigan Railway Company: The Northern and Southern Divisions, the first comprehensive history of the Michigan United Railway Company, traces the rise and fall of Michigan’s most significant electric railway. This volume covers the company’s founding in local rail-based public transportation systems in Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and Owosso-Corunna and ends with its eventual demise, abandoned prior to the stock market crash of 1929. Norman L. Krentel follows the fragme…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781611864984
ISBN-10:1611864984
Author:Norman L. Krentel
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Imprint:Michigan State University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:286
Release Date:1 December 2024
Weight:454g
Dimensions:279mm x 216mm
About The Author

Norman L. Krentel

Norman L. Krentel is past president of the Illinois Railway Museum. He is a volunteer organizer for the Michigan Railroad History Conference and a member of the Central Electric Railfans’ Association, the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, the Pere Marquette Historical Society, and the Illinois Traction Historical Society. He has written rail history articles for the Illinois Railway Museum’s Rail and Wire and for the First and Fastest.

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