Time Line - 2016

Last Year | Next Year

• May - Michigan utilities begin to close the seven remaining coal-fired electricity generating plants in a move to use natural gas. The first closed is in Luna Pier, north of Toledo on Lake Erie, which has been served by the CN.

• July 12. The former D&TSL depot in Monroe is destroyed by fire. [MEV]

• October 24. BO Tower in Kalamazoo is closed, leaving Delray as the last interlocking crossing tower in Michigan not co-located with a drawbridge. The tower was reportedly opened on October 2, 1914 and open for 102 years. [MRF-11/16]

• Lansing's MA Tower (Michigan Avenue) has found a permanent home at the Lansing Model Railroad Club in soutwest Lansing. After closure, MA was moved temporarily in Old Lansing.  [PMT] 

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