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The Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad was chartered in 1831 with a capital of $1,500,000. [4] 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 Woodward Avenue was then known.
Joining the P&D in 1832 was the Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad, which aimed to cross the entire Lower Peninsula and establish a connection with Lake Michigan on the St. Joseph River. Neither of these projects had made any progress when in 1833 the Michigan Territorial Council granted a charter to yet another company, the Erie and Kalamazoo ...
In 1831, the Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad was chartered as a new railroad company, with plans to connect Detroit to the west Michigan city of St. Joseph. By 1846, the company was operating as the ...
Construction completed by the Central Railroad of Michigan, that was started by the Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad Company, Detroit to Ypsilanti Mich., 1838. 29.00 Constructed by the Central Railroad of Michigan— Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor, Mich., 1839. 8.00 Ann Arbor to Jackson, Mich., 1841. 39.00 Jackson to Marshall, Mich., 1844. 32.00
Plans for a railway line to St. Joseph, Michigan and then on to Chicago by boat were outlined in 1830, and after a number of funding problems, the line reached Dexter ten years later and Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1846 when the Michigan Central Railroad was formed to progress the work faster and replace faulty rails that had already installed. The ...
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest. It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri.
Boyne City, Gaylord and Alpena Railroad: Buchanan and St. Joseph River Railroad: NYC: 1894 1912 Michigan Central Railroad: Buckley and Douglas Railroad: 1881 1889 N/A Cadillac and Lake City Railway: CLK 1963 1971 N/A Canada and St. Louis Railway: NYC: 1887 1889 Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway: Canada Southern Railway: NYC: 1874 1882 ...
The route between Chicago and St. Joseph did survive until the 1950s. [14] On January 29, 1870, the Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore Railroad extended a rail line from New Buffalo to St. Joseph. This railroad connected St. Joseph to Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Detroit and Chicago. (Prior to this, the only connection St. Joseph had to these other ...