Railroad: Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan railroad

Ionia & Lansing Railroad + Detroit Howell & Lansing → Detroit Lansing & Lake Michigan Railroad → Detroit Lansing & Northern Railroad

Operated: 5 Years

Acquired: 1871 the I&L and DH&L.

Became: DL&N in 1876.

Reference: [MRRC]

Notes

Time Line

1871. March 16. Acquired at incorporation: Lansing to Greenville

1871. November 30. Completed from West Detroit to Howard City.

1871. The end of the first division of the Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan railroad is at Ionia, where the second division begins and extends at present to Howard City. The road is amply equipped for the traffic at present, having 18 locomotives and the necessary rolling stock. New locomotives have been ordered and a further supply of cars, which will be on hand for the opening of the anticipated increase of traffic in the spring. The cost of the road was about $25,000 per mile, about as cheap as any road of like character can be constructed. The iron rail weighs 60 pounds to the yard and the bridges, station-houses, elevators, etc. are of the most substantial character. The telegraph is in operation the whole length of the road. [DFP-1871-1208]

1872. Consolidated Ionia, Stanton and Northern.

1872. The mail route on the DL&LM has been extended to Howard City. [LSJ-1872-0229]

1872. December. The survey for the western extension of the DL&LM goes no further than the village of Fremont Center in Newaygo County, at which point it intersects the Muskegon & Big Rapids railroad, lately consolidated with the Chicago & Michigan Lake Shore. [DFP-1872-1229]

1876. July. Entered into receivership.

1876. December 14. Foreclosure sale to DL&N.