MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD Lantern A&W COMPANY The ADAMS 1886 M. C. R. R

This Vintage piece of Railroad History, made by THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY for the MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD. The lantern is marked THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO THE "ADAMS" M.

PAT'D Date JUNE 8 & 29 1886, Last Date NOV. The Brass burner is marked ADLAKE PATD APRIL 27,1909 in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe is embossed M.

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Learn how and when to remove this template message. Michigan Central Railroad (red) and. MC was originally incorporated in 1846 to establish rail service between. The railroad later operated in the states of.

After about 1867 the railroad was controlled by the. Which later became part of. After the 1998 Conrail breakup. Now owns much of the former Michigan Central trackage. Railroad ferry and car float service. Michigan Central Station: Battle Creek. Michigan Central Station: Ann Arbor. Proposed rebirth as an independent railroad. Battle Creek and Bay City Railroad 1889. Detroit and Bay City Railroad 1881. Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad 1916. Frederick and Charlevoix Railroad 1901. Detroit River Tunnel Company Railroad 1918. Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad 1871. Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad. Grand River Valley Railroad 1870. Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad 1851.

Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad 1870. Michigan Air Line Railway 1870.

Michigan Midland and Canada Railroad 1878. Saginaw Bay and Northwestern Railroad 1884. Glencoe, Pinconning and Lake Shore Railroad 1878. Louis, Sturgis and Battle Creek Railroad 1889.

Was originally planned in 1830 to provide. Joseph and via boat service on to Chicago. The railroad actually began construction on May 18, 1836, starting at "King's Corner" in Detroit, which was the name by which the southeast corner of Jefferson and.

Note that this is not the location of. Which apparently replaced this building.

Michigan Central train arriving in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1887. The small private organization, known then as the. Joseph Railroad , quickly ran into problems securing cheap land in the private market, and abandonment of the project was discussed. The now state-owned company was renamed the. By this time the railroad had reached. A distance 143.16 miles. The new private corporation had committed to complete the railroad with T rail of not less than sixty pounds to the yard and also to replace the poorly built rails between Kalamazoo and Detroit with similar quality rail, as the state-built rail was of low quality. The new owners met this obligation by building the rest of the line some 74.84 miles to the shores of.

However, rather than go to St. Joseph, instead they went to.

This was because they had decided to extend the road all the way to Chicago. This involved passing through two other states and getting leave from two state legislatures to do so. To facilitate this process, they bought the. Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad.

By 1850 and finished the line to Chicago in 1852. The completed railroad was 270 miles in length. The Michigan Central Railroad (MCR) operated mostly. These trains ranged from locals to the.

In 1904, MCR began a long-term lease of. (CSR), which operated the most direct route between Detroit and New York. CSR's mainline cut through the heart of southwestern, Ontario, between Windsor and Fort Erie. The new service, known as the Canada Division Passenger Service, saw a major surge beginning at the start of the 1920s. Between 1920 and 1922, the legendary. Wolverine passenger train operated in two sections, five days per week along CSR's mainline. Then, in the summer of 1923, the eastbound. Began running from Detroit to Buffalo without any scheduled stops in Canada, making the trip in 4 hours and 50 minutes, an unprecedented achievement. During the same summer, the Canada Division was moving 2,300 through passengers per day.

By the end of the decade, a fleet of 205 J-1 class Hudson? One of the most powerful locomotives for passenger service yet designed? Was hauling passengers along the CSR mainline. While Michigan Central was an independent subsidiary of the. System, passenger trains were staged from.

S Central Station as a tenant. When MC operations were completely integrated into NYC in the 1950s, trains were re-deployed to NYC's. Home, where other NYC trains such as the.

IC sued for breach of contract and won because the MC had a lease that ran for a few more years. The MC route from Chicago to. The Kensington Interchange, shared with the. These tracks now belong to. And are overgrown stub tracks ending short of the interchange. Trains serving the Michigan Central Detroit line now use the former NYC to Porter, where they turn north on Michigan Central. Passenger equipment was mostly similar to that of parent New York Central System. Was a large customer of Michigan Central, use of. Loading dock with a Michigan Central boxcar in 1920. Prior to the automobile, Michigan Central was mostly a carrier of natural resources. Michigan had extensive reserves of.

At the time, and the Michigan Central owned lines from east to west of the state and north to south, tapping all resources available. After the advent of the automobile as one of the most dominant forces of commerce ever seen by the world, with Detroit at the epicenter, the Michigan Central became a carrier of autos and auto-related parts. The Michigan Central was one of the few Michigan railroads with a direct line into Chicago, meaning it did not have to operate cross-lake. As did virtually all other railroads operating in Michigan, such as the.

Michigan Central was part owner of the ferry service operated to the. As well as cross-river ferry service to. But these routes did not exist to circumvent Chicago. Michigan Central Station in London, ON, ca. Michigan Central steel gondolas seen in Port Stanley, ON in 1915.

The Michigan Central Railroad (MCR) and then parent New York Central Railroad (NYC) owned the. (CSR), which had lines throughout southwestern Ontario from.

The railroad operated a car-float service over the. Below the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario; and the MCR Cantilever Bridge at Niagara Falls, which was later replaced with a steel arch bridge in 1925. The car float operation ended when the Detroit River tunnel was completed. Control of Canada Southern passed from MCR to NYC, then Penn Central, then. At Niagara Falls was inducted into the. North America Railway Hall of Fame. The structure was inducted as having significance to the railway industry in category of North America: Facilities & Structures. All major Michigan railroads operated a. This can be attributed to MC's most direct route across Southern Michigan from Detroit to Chicago. The Michigan Central also had the best access to Chicago of any Michigan railroad. The Michigan Central did own part of the. The Chief Wawatam was a front-loading, hand-fired, coal-fed. It was the last hand-fired steamer in the free world at its long-overdue retirement in 1984. The Chief Wawatam continued to operate until 2009, cut down to a. One Chief Wawatam engine was salvaged and restored by the. Other artifacts from the ferry, including the whistle, wheel, telegraphs, and furniture, are preserved by the Mackinac Island State Park Commission in Mackinaw City. Car floats also ran across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario, for high and wide loads that could not fit through the tunnels. The major competitors of the Michigan Central were.

(operations integrated with and now operated as CN). Formally merged in 1947 and now owned by. (merged into Penn Central with MC/NYC, then into Conrail; owned by various railroads). Michigan Central Railroad Dexter Depot. This train depot was built to replace a former station that had burned down.

It served passenger trains until the early 1950s. Today, the station is home to the Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club, which hosts open houses the first Wednesday of each month. It also has some railroad memorabilia such as an old crossing signal and baggage cart. Michigan Central Station in Detroit in 2010.

Michigan Central was the owner of. Opened in 1913, the building is of the. Style of architecture, designed by the. As such, Michigan Central Station bears more than a passing resemblance to New York's famed rail station.

In 1988, Michigan Central Station has since become a victim of extensive vandalism. Over the last 20 years, several proposals and concepts for redevelopment have been suggested, none coming to fruition. National Register of Historic Places. The Detroit City Council passed a resolution to demolish the station in April 2009.

The council was then met with strong opposition from Detroit resident Stanley Christmas, who in turn, sued the city of Detroit to stop the demolition effort, citing the. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The station shows up in the first part of the. And is frequently used by.

Michigan Central Station, Battle Creek. Former Michigan Central Station in. Is also famous, having appeared in several Hollywood movies. Like its sister station in Detroit, the station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Michigan Central Railroad Depot (Battle Creek, MI). Opened on July 27, 1888. Of Detroit designed the depot, one of several Richardsonian Romanesque-style stations between Detroit and Chicago in the late nineteenth century. The depot was acquired by the New York Central Railroad in 1918, Penn Central in 1968 and Amtrak in 1970.

The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and is now Clara's on the River Restaurant. The former Michigan Central Station in. A granite stone block building built in 1886 and designed by Frederick Spier of.

Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the. The Michigan Central also built and operated a. This swing bridge is similar to the moving span at. Owned by parent New York Central, but has no approach spans. It is still in operation and owned by Amtrak. No historic Michigan Central-specific equipment exists today. After the steam era, almost all equipment was lettered for New York Central. Many common New York Central locomotives and rolling stock are preserved in places like Illinois Railway Museum and the National New York Central Museum, in Elkhart Indiana. The latter includes a sample passenger train in NYC livery, although the two coaches are actually of Illinois Central heritage. The E8 and observation car are original NYC equipment and very likely served on the Michigan Central after dieselization. Has some railroad memorabilia around it, such as an old. Signal and a baggage cart. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article. By adding citations to reliable sources.

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad reporting mark. CBQ was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q. The Burlington Route served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Colorado. And also in New Mexico. Through subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Railway. Fort Worth and Denver Railway.

Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. Because of this extensive trackage in the midwest and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs ", and "The Way West".

It merged into Burlington Northern. At the end of the year CB&Q operated 8,538 route-miles, C&S operated 708 and FW&D operated 1362. These totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad. Cities platted by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The earliest predecessor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Aurora Branch Railroad.

Was chartered by act of the Illinois General Assembly. The charter was obtained by citizens of Aurora.

Who were concerned that the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad. Would bypass their towns in favor of West Chicago.

On its route; at the time, that was the only line running west from Chicago. The Aurora Branch was built from Aurora, through Batavia, to Turner Junction in what is now West Chicago. The line was built with old strap rail and minimal, if any, grading. The G&CU required the Aurora Branch to turn over 70 percent of their revenue per ton-mile handled on that railroad; as a result, in the mid-1850s, surveys were ordered to determine the best route for a railroad line to Chicago.

The line from Aurora to Chicago was built through the fledgling towns of Naperville. And the west side of Chicago. Regular commuter train service started in 1863 and remains operational to this day, making it the oldest surviving regular passenger service in Chicago. Both the original Chicago line, and to a much lesser extent, the old Aurora Branch right of way, are still in regular use today by the Burlington's present successor BNSF Railway.

With a steady acquisition of locomotives, cars, equipment, and trackage, the Burlington Route was able to enter the trade markets in 1862. From that year to date, the railroad and its successors have paid dividends continuously, and never run into debt or defaulted on a loan? The only Class I U.

For which this is true. Henry H Rogers' line, the Virginian Railway. After extensive trackwork was planned, the Aurora Branch changed its name to the Chicago and Aurora Railroad in June 1852.

And to Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad in 1856, and shortly reached its two other namesake cities, Burlington, Iowa. In 1868 CB&Q completed bridges over the Mississippi River. Giving the railroad through connections with the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (B&MR). In Iowa and the Hannibal & St.

Upon reaching the Missouri River at St. The B&MR continued building west into Nebraska as a separate company, the Burlington & Missouri River Rail Road , founded in 1869. During the summer of 1870 it reached Lincoln. The newly designated capital of Nebraska and by 1872 it reached Kearney, Nebraska. That same year the B&MR across Iowa was absorbed by the CB&Q.

By the time the Missouri River bridge at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Was completed the B&MR in Nebraska was well on its way to the Mile High city of Denver, Colorado. Burlington's rapid expansion after the American Civil War. Was based upon sound financial management, dominated by John Murray Forbes. Of Boston and assisted by Charles Elliott Perkins.

Perkins was a powerful administrator who eventually forged a system out of previously loosely held affiliates, virtually tripling Burlington's size during his presidency from 1881 to 1901. Burlington Route system map, 1892. Burlington lines are black; connecting railroads are red. Ultimately, Perkins believed the Burlington Railroad must be included into a powerful transcontinental system. Though the railroad as far west as Denver and Billings, Montana. It had failed to reach the Pacific Coast. During the 1880s and 1890s, when construction was less expensive.

Of the Union Pacific Railroad. Perkins felt his railroad was a more natural fit with James J. With its river line to the Twin Cities. The Burlington Route formed a natural connection between Hill's home town (and headquarters) of St. And the railroad hub of Chicago.

By 1900, Hill's Great Northern, in conjunction with the Northern Pacific Railway. Held nearly 100 percent of Burlington's stock. In 1901 a rebuffed Harriman tried to gain an indirect influence over the Burlington by launching a stock raid on the Northern Pacific. Though Hill managed to fend off this attack on his nascent system, it led to the creation of the Northern Securities Company. And later, the Northern Securities Co. Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad steam locomotive built 1940 at West Burlington, Iowa. In service until 1956, on display since 1962 in Douglas, Wyoming. It also extended its reach south in the Mississippi Valley region by opening up a new line from Concord, Illinois. It was during this period that the Burlington was at its largest, exceeding just over 12,000 route miles in 14 states by the 1920s. With the First World War. Having the same effect on the railroad as on all other railroads, during the 1920s, the Burlington Route had an increasingly heavy amount of equipment flooding the yards. With the advent of the Great Depression. The CB&Q held a good portion of this for scrap. Despite the decrease of passengers, it was during this time that the railroad introduced the famed Zephyrs. In 1929, the CB&Q created a subsidiary, the Burlington Transportation Company. To operate intercity buses in tandem with its railway network. In 1936, the company would become one of the founding members of the Trailways Transportation System. And still provides intercity service to this day as Burlington Trailways. As early as 1897, the railroad had been interested in alternatives to steam power, namely, internal-combustion engines. The railroad's shops in Aurora had built an unreliable three-horsepower distillate motor in that year, but it was hugely impractical (requiring a massive 6,000-pound flywheel) and had issues with overheating (even with the best metals of the day, its cylinder heads and liners would warp and melt in a matter of minutes) and was therefore impractical. Diesel engines of that era were obese, stationary monsters and were best suited for low-speed, continuous operation. None of that would do in a railroad locomotive; however, there was no diesel engine suitable for that purpose then.

A Zephyr arriving at East Dubuque, Illinois. And built their own, sending them out to do the jobs of a steam locomotive and a single car. Steeple-cab switchers powered by distillate engines, Burlington president Ralph Budd. Requested of the Winton Engine Company a light, powerful diesel engine that could stand the rigors of continuous, unattended daily service.

The experiences of developing these engines can be summed up shortly by General Motors. I do not recall any trouble with the dip stick.

Accused of gambling on diesel power, chirped that I knew that the GM people were going to see the program through to the very end. Actually, I wasn't taking a gamble at all. The manifestation of this gamble was the eight-cylinder Winton 8-201A diesel, a creature no larger than a small Dumpster. That powered the Burlington Zephyr (built 1934) on its record run and opened the door for developing the long line of diesel engines that has powered Electro-Motive locomotives for the past seventy years. These locomotives were previously used for the Zephyr passenger trains.

After the Second World War, the CB&Q was inundated with the overworked steam locomotives existent in a fleet that was already beginning to dieselize. Having expanded its dieselization program rapidly, steam power was slowly put out to pasture, and on September 28, 1959, the last steam-powered commuter train from Chicago rolled to a stop in Downers Grove. Marking the end of steam operations on the railroad. As the financial situation of American railroading continued to decline through the 1960s, the Burlington Railroad merged with the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle. Railroads on March 2, 1970 to form the Burlington Northern. A merger once dreamed of by Great Northern founder James J. The passengers, including "Zeph" the burro, that rode the Zephyr on the "Dawn-to-Dusk Dash" gather for a group photo in front of the train after arriving in Chicago on May 26, 1934. The railroad operated a number of streamlined. Known as the Zephyrs which were one of the most famous and largest fleets of streamliners.

The Burlington Zephyr , the first American diesel. Electric powered streamlined passenger train, made its noted "dawn-to-dusk" run from Denver, Colorado. On November 11, 1934, the train was put into regularly scheduled service between Lincoln, Nebraska. Although the distinctive, articulated stainless steel trains were well known, and the railroad adopted the "Way of the Zephyrs " advertising slogan, they did not attract passengers back to the rails en masse , and the last one was retired from revenue service with the advent of Amtrak.

Paul, jointly with Rock Island. Denver handled by CB&Q; Denver?

Salt Lake City by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. Oakland by Western Pacific Railroad. Other named passenger trains which operated on the Burlington included. These trains were operated jointly with Northern Pacific Railway and had a different name when they were east or westbound. The club car of the Chicago Limited and the Denver Limited.

The train had an eastbound and westbound name. Denver: replaced the Colorado Limited. Lincoln: replaced Nebraska Limited and replaced by Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr. Kansas City: replaced by the American Royal Zephyr. Atlantic Express (Seattle-Tacoma-Chicago): jointly with Northern Pacific Railway. (Denver-Yellowstone) Seasonal tri-weekly service between Denver, Colorado. Denver: replaced by the Aristocrat. Oakland in conjunction with D&RGW and WP prior to the launching of the California Zephyr. S flagship between Chicago and Minneapolis. Handled the Northern Pacific Railway. S secondary transcontinental between Chicago and Minneapolis. Lincoln: replaced by the Ak-Sar-Ben. North Pacific Express (Chicago-Seattle-Tacoma): jointly with Northern Pacific Railway. This train, along with The Aristocrat and the Colorado Limited , were promoted as companion trains to the streamlined Denver Zephyr. (Denver-Billings) operated between Denver, Colorado. Referred to affectionately as "The Night Crawler". Handled the Great Northern Railway.

(Denver-Cheyenne) offered daytime service along Colorado's Front Range between Denver, Colorado. The California Zephyr is still operated daily today by Amtrak. As trains Five (westbound) and Six (eastbound). Another Amtrak train, the Illinois Zephyr. Is a modern descendant of the Kansas City Zephyr.

And the American Royal Zephyr. The Burlington was a leader in innovation; among its firsts were use of the printing telegraph (1910), train radio communications (1915), streamlined passenger diesel power (1934) and vista-dome. In 1927, the railroad was one of the first to use Centralized Traffic Control. (CTC) and by the end of 1957 had equipped 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of its line.

The railroad had one of the first hump classification yards. At its Cicero Avenue Yard in Chicago, allowing an operator in a tower to line switches remotely and allowing around-the-clock classification.

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