Railroad: Detroit and Chicago Railroad Company

Chicago & Canada Southern → Detroit & Chicago Railroad → Detroit & Lima Northern and NYC

Acquired: Chicago & Canada Southern in 1888.

Operated for 9 years. Leased by LS&MS.

Sold: Portion from Slocum Jct. to Dundee to D&LN in 1897.

Operated: Grosvenor to Fayette by Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. Merged into NYC in 1915.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

At incorporation, acquired line from Slocum Junction (near Trenton) to Fayette, Ohio. In 1897 sold part of this line to D&LN. [MRRC]

Note: The annual report for the D&C says that the $5,176557 purchase price includes the cost of construction of the road from Slocum Junction to Fayette, Ohio (a distance of 66.6 miles) but also the cost for purchase of the right of way from Fayette, Ohio to near the State line between the States of Indiana and Illinois, and the cost of grading and building culverts and other work done thereon, to prepare the said right of way for ties and rails, which, however, as a matter of fact, were never laid, the work having been abandoned. Since the road was built from Slocum Junction to Fayette, 26.47 miles thereof between Chandler and Dundee have been sold and transferred to the Detroit & Lima Northern Railroad Company and forms a part of the main line of that company's road in the state of Michigan and 14.57 miles of road between Dundee and Grosvenor have been taken up, leaving the total mileage in operation 25.56 miles.

The road also had 2.53 miles of spurs and sidings in Michigan.

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