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Electric Railways Of Michigan CERA Bulletin #103 1959 Approx 170 pages
Electric Railways Of Michigan CERA Bulletin #103 Name label on front page, back cover has a crease, coating on the inside cover is starting to peel (very slightly)
Copyright 1959
Approx 170 pages
Table of contents
Detroit
Eastern Michigan System
Michigan Electric System
Other lines in lower peninsula
Lines in upper peninsula
FOREWORD:
Michigan was once laced and dotted with urban and interurban electric railways. It even boasted three main line railroad electrifications. But now it has no electric railway operating as a common carrier. Its longest surviving traction operation is a limestone hauler just a few miles in length. The one or two other existing lines measure only a few hundred feet of track together.
Searching out the story of the many lines that have now disappeared into history is a difficult task. Most existed only 15 to 25 years; most are abandoned for 25 to 30 years now. Finding a photo, timetable or transfer from one of these long-gone companies requires a combination of research talent, perseverence and luck. To reconstruct a system map sometimes takes days of field work and interviews; to develop a track connection map is well-nigh impossible, altho it has been done herein several times.
What we have found has been culled, manicured and polished and is set down in the pages that follow. Far from a complete historical record, this publication is a sort of bound file, a scrapbook of representative photos and notes intended to restore for you a few minutes of the "feel" of the old-time electric railway.
HOW B-103 WAS PREPARED:
For several years it has been the goal of some CERA members that Michigan would be the subject of one of the series of bulletins on the electric railways of various states. Richard Andrews of Wayne, Michigan, decided to do something about it. He contacted the CERA publications staff and came in to see just what would be needed to get the project under way. He found only a lukewarm reception, not for lack of enthusiasm over the idea, but rather for dearth of authentic material accessible to the Chicago office.
As usual, we must acknowledge the failures and shortcomings which are inherent in this bulletin because it is an amateur production. The artwork, selection of material and editing is entirely carried out by a volunteer staff working a few hours each week without salary. None of these people are engaged vocationally in the publishing field. CERA's not-for-profit budget does not permit retaining professional staff, except for our printers, who within the limits of the planographing process, minimize the damage done to the bulletin by the lack of skill of your publications staff.
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