Time Line - 1992

Last Year | Next Year

• February: The Lake State Railway Company (LSRC) is created, following the lease of the Detroit & Mackinac Railway to management officials. [MRC-2/1995]

• June 12: Craig Burroughs leases the Mellen, WI to Bessemer, MI line from the Wisconsin Central and begins freight operations. The operation, which used a former LS&I GE U23C, ceased on February 12, 1995.

• June: The Union Belt of Detroit is dissolved. [EMR4]

• November: Work starts on enlarging one tube of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.  It is completed on April 17, 1994. [SOO-Su/1994]

 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