Time Line - 1947

Last Year | Next Year

• March: The Copper Range Railroad purchases two 1,000 horsepower Baldwin Westinghouse diesel locomotives. Steam power is all but eliminated. [CRH]

• June 6: Pere Marquette RR is consolidated into The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. [MDOT][PMHS]

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• Passenger trains operate over 160,000 miles of U.S. railroad. [STOV]

• Lima Locomotive Works and the Hamilton Corporation merge to become Lima-Hamilton. [SAM]

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