The railroad depot first opened in 1838 as a wooden structure, the brochure for the depot states. A Victorian station on the ...

Many Michigan towns find their roots along the railroad tracks that connected people nationwide for nearly a hundred years. And while train traffic isn’t what it once was, the impact of railways can ...

From the shores of Lake Michigan to the heart of Detroit, and north to Sault Ste. Marie, sites in Michigan echo through time with stories of the past not often found in textbooks – the stories of ...

Michigan's railroad history is packed with adventure, innovation, and stories that shaped how people traveled across the state. From steam engines that once chugged through small towns to electric ...

An early steam train traveled on tracks at Wapakoneta. The locomotive was most likely part of the Dayton & Michigan Railroad. When Dr. George F. Holbrook came to Wapakoneta in the 1830s, he arrived in ...

CHARLEVOIX — One hundred fifty years ago, on May 17, 1873, Charlevoix Sentinel editor Willard A. Smith reported that “Every boat brings numbers of new settlers for the unoccupied territory in the ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan is allocating $16 million in grant funds for a handful of freight railway projects around the state. On Thursday, March 14, the state’s Department of Transportation announced 10 ...

In 19th century Detroit, there was little stigma attached to public speaking. In the days before the arrival of 20th-century mass media, politicians, barkers and buskers often found eager audiences by ...

As Laurel Smith sat on the front step of her home on Wall Street in Melvindale, not 20 feet away were children excitedly yelling and playing during recess at adjacent Allendale Elementary School. Only ...