Railroad: Detroit City Railway Company, The


Acquired variousDetroit City Railway → Detroit Citizens Street Railway


 Built: 1863 in Detroit.

Operated for 27 years.

Became: Detroit Citizens Street Railway in 1890

Reference: [MRRC]


Detroit Horse Drawn Street Car

Image Info: An 1885 photo of a horse-drawn street car in Detroit.


Notes

Acquired the following street railway lines:

  • Russell Street, St. Aubin & Detroit and Milwaukee Junction Railway - in 1876 (including the St. Aubin Avenue Street Railway)
  • Hamtramck Street Railway - in 1881
  • Congress & Baker Street Railway - in 1882 (including the Detroit & Grand Trunk Junction Street Railway)
  • Cass Avenue Railway - in 1882

This line was originally horse-powered, then electric.


Time Line

 

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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