Time Line - 1953

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• June 16: The last steam engine, a Hudson type 4-6-4, number 5434, is run on the former Michigan Central portion of the New York Central. [MT]

• September: The New York Central abandons its line from Monroe to Ida. [MRC-5/1973]

• December 8: The Chesapeake & Ohio  restarts car ferry service between Port Huron and Sarnia. It had been stopped by the Pere Marquette in 1933. [AB]

• December 29: Electric train operations through the Detroit River railroad tunnel ends, replaced by diesel locomotives. [MDOT]

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  Detroit, Caro and Sandusky Railway abandons the remainder of its line from Caro to Roseburg (:former Detroit, Bay City & Western). Other portions had been abandoned on several other years. [MRRC]

• A half-dozen U.S. railroads offer TOFC "piggy-back" service. [STOV]

• The Copper Range Railroad experiences a heavy movement of forest products on the Gay branch, and increaed shipments of copper rock from Painesdale to the Freda mill on the Freda Branch. [CRAR]

• KC brakes are banned from interchange. [SAM]

• The DSS&A branch to White Pine is completed and opened. [RO]

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