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Locomotives

• Industrial History of Southwest Detroit before the auto - Thomas Klug, Marygrove College, 1999

• Nahma Northern Railroad Locomotive No. 5 [Nahma Historical Society]

Industry

• Michigan's Iron Cobweb by Fred Olds - 1973 - [RLHS]

Railroads

• Boyne City Railroad History
• Detroit Terminal Railroad - 1941 
• Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Short Line - 1905 [Street Railway Journal]
• Doubling The Load Capacity Of An Old Iron Railroad Viaduct - PM High Bridge - 1913 [Railway Age Gazette]
• Duluth, South Shore &Atlantic - The Last Decade - 1960
• Expedites Terminal Moves (Union Belt) - 1955 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
• Ford Railroad Has Unique Operating Practices - [Railway Age] 1935
• Interurban Link Between Detroit and Toledo - [Street Railway Jounal] 1905
• Jackson & Battle Creek Railway [Street Railway Journal] 1904
• Michigan Railway's 24,000 volt Third Rail Line [Electric Railway Journal]
• Toledo Railway and Terminal Company - 1903 [RA-1903-0911]

Railroad Facilities

• New Algoma Central Engine House and Shops [Railway Age Gazette] - 1912
• New Hocking Valley Coal Dock at East Toledo - 1914 [Railway Age Gazette]
• New Michigan Central Yard at Detroit [Railway Age]
• South Bend: NYC-GTW Track Elevation and Relocation - 1930 [Railway Age]
• South Bend: NYC New "HF" Tower [Railway Signaling]

Signaling

• Canadian Pacific Installs Centralized Traffic Control - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]
• Centennial of the Morse Telegraph - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]
• Centralized Traffic Control on the Baltimore & Ohio - (1932) - [Railway Signaling]
• C&O Has Good Ideas in CTC - 1958 [Railway Signaling]
• CTC Saves Time for Freights (PM Northern Reg) - 1955 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
• CTC Solves Operating Problems on the PM - 1945 - [Railway Signaling]
• Delray Tower - War-Time Replacement of Interlocking on the PM - 1946 [Railway Signaling]
• GTW Installs CTC on 37 Miles of Busy Single Track (Holly Sub) - 1953 - Railway Signaling and Communications]
• Interlocking in the 1870's (GTW M.A.L. Crossing) - [The Signal Engineer]
• Modern Signaling on a Division (PM Waverly) - 1949 - [Railway Signaling & Communications]
• New Interlockers on the Flint Belt Line (PM) - 1923 - [Railway Signaling]
• New Single Track Signals On The Lake Shore (1912) - White Pigeon to Elkhart 
• Michigan Central Installs New Interlocker at Belt Line Jct.
• Michigan Central Makes Improvements in Signaling System (Canada) - 1931 - [Railway Signaling]
• New Electric Interlocking (South Bend) - 1930 - [Railway Signaling]
• New Interlockings at Windsor, Ontario - 1940 - [Railway Signaling]
• New York Central Extends South Bend Interlocking - 1935 - [Railway Signaling]
• NYC First to Install Complete Train Dispatching System (CTC-Fostoria) - 1927 - [Railway Signaling]
• NYC Installs Big NX Plant at Fostoria, OH - 1950 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
• Pennsylvania Installs an Interlocking without Derails - (1928-PRR Walbridge) - [Railway Signaling]
• Pere Marquette Installs Centralized Control Signal System (Mt. Morris) - 1928 - [Railway Signaling]
• Pere Marquette Installs CTC (New Buffalo) - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
• Protection at All Crossings (Battle Creek) - 1949 - [Railroad Signaling]
• Pushbutton CTC Machine on NYC (NYC Toledo-Elkhart) - 1957 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
• Remote Control on the Michigan Central (Kalamazoo) - 1938 - [Railway Signaling]
• Simplified Electric Plant at Belt Line Junction - 1929 - [Railway Signaling]
• War-Time Replacement Of Interlocking on Pere Marquette (Delray) - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
• What Kind of Control for Take-Siding Signals - 1940s - [Railway Signaling]

Technology

• Crossing Protection Includes Signals for Directing Trains (MC Belt - 1936] - [Railway Signaling]
• DT&I Tests Radio - 1946 - [Railway Signaling]
• Loudspeakers and Interlockings Improve Yard Operations - (PM Grand Rapids) - 1954 - [Railway Signaling and Communications]
• Train Telephone Communications - 1944 - [Railway Signaling]

Wrecks

• Accident In Automatic Block Signal Territory (MC Wayne Jct.-1936) - Railway Signaling