Time Line - 1932

Last Year | Next Year

• Depression continues.

• Railroads collectively operate at a financial deficit. [STOV]

• Early: DSS&A builds new ore dock at Marquette. [SOO-Fall/1994]

• May 21: Houghton County Street Railway Co. ceases operations. [SSJB]

• June 11: Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee RR is abandoned between Dundee and a junction with the Battle Creek & Sturgis Ry. at Morgan Park (Emmet Township). [MDY33]

• August 5: Pere Marquette RR suspends river ferry service in Port Huron (resumes in 1950's). [PMHS]

• August 26: The I.C.C. approves the abandonment of the Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad. [MDOT]

• September 17: The DT&I discontinues all passenger service in Michigan, leaving only passenger service between Springfield and Jackson, Ohio [EMR4]

• September 23: Canada Southern Ry. abandons the St. Clair & Western Railroad between St. Clair and Ridgeway. [MRRC]

• September 26: Four tank cars carrying 40,000 gallons of gasoline and a passeger car burned in Alpena after one of the tank cars derailed. The intense heat melted rails and burned ties for a half mile. Two train employees were slightly injured. No passengers were in the passenger car, which was attached to the freight train. [EDP/1932-0927]

• October 5: The last car is operated on the Detroit to Toledo interurban line. [EMR4]

• November 2: A bitter and contentious strike ends streetcar service in Kalamazoo. [MT]

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• Pere Marquette RR abandons line between White Cloud to Big Rapids. [PMHS]

• Pere Marquette RR abandons line between Fostoria and Otter Lake. 5.15 miles. [PMHS/COHS-8/1997]

• Manistee & North Eastern begins operations over portions of PM track, abandoning its own parallel tracks from Kaleva to Traverse City. [PMHS][PM45]

• Pere Marquette abandons line from Grindstone City to Port Austin, 5.2 miles. [COHS-8/1997]

• The Rochester MC/DUR crossing tower is closed.  Also known as Main Street, 3 MC and 3 DUR tracks crossed directly over the roadway of Main Street.  [CW]

• Operation of the LS&MS Lansing Branch is transferred to the MCRR Michigan Division for operating purposes. Service between Lansing and Jonesville is provided by mixed trains #64 and #65. [MRC-5/1981]

• Most PM main line wooden passenger coaches are replaced by all-steel equipment. [COHS-2/1998]

 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