Location: Detroit, MI - Interuban Lines

Early on, Detroit depended on horse drawn street cars. These eventually bacame part of several street railways and ultimately into the DUR and the city owned DSR system. Detroit also had interurban railroads which often used city street railway tracks and then on their own lines once they reached the city limits. Interurban lines went in all directions including south (to Wyandotte, Trenton and Toledo), west (to Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Jackson), northwest (out Grand River to Farmington), north (along Woodward to Royal Oak, Pontiac and beyond) and northeast (to Mt. Clemens and Port Huron.

Photo info: Several horse drawn street cars in downtown Detroit in 1885.

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