Time Line - 1907

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• June 29: D&M leases Alabaster Branch (4 miles) to Erie & Michigan Railway and Navigation Company. Lease continues until January, 1948. [HI/MRRC]

• July 20: Michigan's worst railroad accident, a head-on collision of two Pere Marquette trains east of Salem due to misread train orders, kills 30 persons. [MDOT]

• August 9, 1907. There was a collision on what is known as the Lincoln branch of the D&M railroad, north of Au Sable Wednesday evening. A light engine ran into a passenger train and both engines were wrecked. The damage to the engines during this and other recent wrecks, has crippled its motive power to such an extent that ithe D&M was obliged to borrow engines, and two were secured form the Michigan Central Railroad. [PHTH-1907-0809]

• December 4: Pere Marquette RR relinquishes control of the Toledo Railway & Terminal Co. [PMHS]

• December 7: A skip carrying 10 miners falls in the Rolling Mill Mine near Negaunee killing all.

• Ann Arbor RR builts a 100-room hotel in Frankfort, known as the Hotel Frontenac. [MDOT]

• The Keweenaw Central RR is completed to Mandan from Calumet, most northerly railroad in Michigan. [MDOT]

• The Michigan Railroad Commission is created. [MDOT]

• The Detroit & Mackinac Ry. begins construction of their branch from Alpena (Hillman Jct.) to Hillman. [WK]

• MM&N moves its round house and shops from South Manistique to Manistique itself, just north of the depot and office building on Deer Street.  The roundhouse is enlarged to six stalls. [AATHA-W/1990]

• Grand Trunk builds depots in West Bay City, Kalamazoo and Port Huron. [IT-12/79][IT-12/1974]

• Grand Trunk builds depot at Pigeon. Depot continues to exist into 1974. [IT-12/1974]

• The Huron Portland Cement plant at Alpena begins production. [GW]

• The Pere Marquette builds a new wooden depot in Hemlock. It is later moved to Saginaw to house a museum. [MRP-I]

• The PO&N builds a replacement depot at Cass City, a block structure which is almost identical in design to the wooden depot it replaced. [IT-5/80]

• The Wisconsin & Michigan acquire trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road between Quinnesec and Iron Mountain. [MW]

• Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. opens a private line to its quarry near Rogers City. [NK/MRRC]

• Pere Marquette Railroad retires it's last narrow gauge locomotive, a 4-4-0 "D". [PMHS]

• The Packard Motor Company opens a plant on Chalmers Avenue. [BOM]

• The railroad car building business reaches it's peak in Detroit, employing over 9,000 men with an annual production value of $28 million. Two big freight car plants build 100 cars a day in Detroit. [HWC]

 Time line Key:

• Railroad event in Michigan
• Event relating to mining
• Event related to car ferries
• Event outside of Michigan
• Improvement in Technology
• Railroad built or extended
• Railroad abandoned and/or removed
• Economic panic or depression