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Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123

Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123


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Detroit's Street Railways Vol 3 When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails CERA #123
 
Detroits Street Railways Vol 3 Bulletin 123 CERA by Jack E Schramm, William H Henning & Richard R Andrews
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
198 pages
Copyright 1984??
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 7
Foreword 8
Background 9
DUR Family Tree 12
The Interurban Builders 20
1 Pontiac Division23
Woodward Ave. in Trolley Days39
The First Superhighway 45
Yolande, Pride of the DUR50
Pontiac City Lines 55
The Ten Little Indians62
2 Orchard Lake Division 65
Grand River in the Good Old Days 73
3 Flint Division 87
The First Large Cars 93
Rolling Stock 1906-1924  101
The Romeo Station Agent's Kid 116
To Flint in Style  122
4 Flint City Lines 145
Detroit's Terminals 158
5 The Bus Arrives  163
6 Commuter Trains  177
7 The Tunnel183
Bibliography  188
Rosters  189
Index195
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
THE RISE of the interurban in eastern Michigan was meteoric-and its fall just as fast. Early promoters built electric lines out of Detroit in all directions, fashioning a transportation network second to none.
These early entrepreneurs were oblivious-at first-to the enormous irony that was in the making. In the same city of Detroit, other capitalists were building automobile manufacturing plants, turning out the products that would doom the interurbans to an early death.
The interurbans of the Detroit United Lines and successors were among the earliest victims, too, because the State of Michigan encouraged the spread of competing bus lines without regard to the existence of established transport. And, in any event, Henry Ford and his contemporaries were hard at work sealing the fate of the electric interurban.
This volume covers much more than the interurbans in the Detroit-Pontiac-Flint-BayCity corridor. Authors Jack Schramm, William Henning and Richard Andrews also give us fine coverage of the DUR's bus affiliates, railway operations in the Detroit River Tunnel and a delightful chapter on the history of the Grand Trunk Western steam commuter line, so recently closed.

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