Railroads for Michigan

Railroads for Michigan
Author: Graydon M. Meints
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781611860856

In this thoroughly researched history, Graydon Meints tells the fascinating story of the railroad's arrival and development in Michigan. The railroad would come to play a role in almost every critical event in Michigan's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, before beginning to wane following the arrival of the automobile. Looking ahead to the future of the railroad in the Great Lakes region, Meints assesses the strengths and shortcomings of this revolutionary invention.

Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers

Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers
Author: George Woodman Hilton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780804742405

This is the definitive account of the rise, fall, and extinction of steam passenger transportation on Lake Michigan from its origin in the late 1840s to the demise of the last steamers in 1970.

The Haywire

The Haywire
Author: Hugh A. Hornstein
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

"The Haywire" played a major role in the industrial development of Michigan's Manistique and Schoolcraft counties.