This may or may not help you. I'll be very interested to read what others post. My grandfather's family emigrated from Bavaria and Prussia to western Michigan (Whitehall and Montague) after the Franco-Prussian War. He used to tell me about "the local railroad," which he affectionately called the "Cheap Help and Damn Poor Management." Asking him one time, I think he answered that that was the Chicago, Hamilton, (something - Dayton?) and Pere Marquette. I may be wrong - that was 50 years ago. Scott
Hmmm. Well, there was the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. Which was merged into the B&O during 1917. And I know that a PM preedecessor was the Flint & Pere Marquette. Amazing how many of us have roots to some part(s) of Germany. Or for that matter, Ireland. Boxcab E50
Boxcab, you are spot on - thinkin' about it, Gramps said "Cincinnati," not Chicago. That's why I never found the history I was looking for. Pre-B&O makes sense - my branch of the family left Michigan in 1904. You're right on the roots. I went through a family history phase a few years ago - just for the heck of it. Amazing what I was able to come up with, family-wise. Thanks for the 'Cincinnati' clue. Scott
Was the Detroit, Lansing & Northern RR somewhere in there? Or was that part of the PRR system? Boxcab E50
Detroit, Lansing & Northern RR went broke and was reorganized as the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western in 1897.
