Detroit Street Railways Map

[mogo]

Wow. Makes it look like a functioning city.

Didn't the Woodward line go up to Pontiac? Which one went to Flint?

[ASR89]

Wow. Makes it look like a functioning city.

Didn't the Woodward line go up to Pontiac? Which one went to Flint?

Indeed, Mogo. Perhaps an extensive street railway system will exist in Detroit again someday.... someday. Anyway, unless I'm mistaken, you're probably thinking of the interurbans.

[Hermod]

Wow. Makes it look like a functioning city.

Didn't the Woodward line go up to Pontiac? Which one went to Flint?

The DSR never went to Pontiac or Flint.

The DUR interurbans did using the DSR lines from downtown. The Woodward line went straight out to Pontiac. The Flint line branched off the Pontiac line in Royal oak and went north through Rochester and Oxford to Flint. There was another branch from Rochester thru Romeo and Imlay City to Almont.

The Gratiot line ran out to New Baltimore, Marine City and Port Huron.

The Michigan Ave line ran out to Ann Arbor and Jackson.

The Fort Street line ran down to Monroe and Toledo.

The Grand River Line ran to Farmington and Northville

There was a line from Farmington to Orchard Lake to Pontiac.

There was a line from Wayne to Farmington.

Through a combination of hostility from government bodies, the press, and the public and from automobile competition, they all went bankrupt and were abandoned.

[professorscott]

The Gratiot line ran out to New Baltimore, Marine City and Port Huron.

Actually there were two versions of the Gratiot Interurban, if you'd like to call it that, since neither ran all the way along Gratiot to Port Huron. The original line ran along Gratiot then followed roughly 23 Mile Road, M-29 and BL 94 to Port Huron. That was a very long trip, so a new line was developed that cut off part of the M-29 segment [[the new route bypassed Algonac and the St. Clair Flats). The new line was referred to as the Short Cut, and the route partly survives in that there is an east-west road in southern St. Clair County called Short Cut Road, which follows the route, and you can actually see a couple of the old interurban bridges over drains and creeks if you know where to look.

By the way, the map is a wonderful resource. We need to find a way to make this broadly available to local and national street railway historians. [[And urban planners.)

[Hermod]

Actually there were two versions of the Gratiot Interurban, if you'd like to call it that, since neither ran all the way along Gratiot to Port Huron. The original line ran along Gratiot then followed roughly 23 Mile Road, M-29 and BL 94 to Port Huron. That was a very long trip, so a new line was developed that cut off part of the M-29 segment [[the new route bypassed Algonac and the St. Clair Flats). The new line was referred to as the Short Cut, and the route partly survives in that there is an east-west road in southern St. Clair County called Short Cut Road, which follows the route, and you can actually see a couple of the old interurban bridges over drains and creeks if you know where to look.

By the way, the map is a wonderful resource. We need to find a way to make this broadly available to local and national street railway historians. [[And urban planners.)

The "local" trains continued to serve Algonac and the other stops along the shore. The express trains used the "short cut" from Fair Haven to Marine City. Not sure if it has been "developed over" but the remains and footprint of the junction at Fair Haven Switch used to be quite apparent.