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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Windsor approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 15, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, with a truss bridge and buildings in the background. Trains are on the tunnel tracks and alongside. Printed on verso: The Detroit River Tunnel, has the unique distinction of being the only tunnel of its type ever built. It was constructed in sections, all work being done from the surface of the water without the use of compressed air. The Tunnel is operated electronically. Construction was started October 1, 1906, and completed July 1, 1910. The length from portal to portal is 1 3/8 miles, and from summit of grade 2 ½ miles. It was built by the Detroit River Tunnel Company for the M. C. R. R. at a cost of $8,500,000. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 8, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, with a truss bridge and buildings in the background. Trains are on the tunnel tracks and alongside. Two signs read "Richard L. Aylward Coal & Coke". Printed on verso: The Detroit River Tunnel has the unique distinction of being the only tunnel of its type ever built. It was constructed in sections, all work being done from the surface of the water without the use of compressed air. The Tunnel is operated electronically. Construction was started October 1, 1906, and completed July 1, 1910. The length from portal to portal is 1 3/8 miles, and from summit of grade 2 ½ miles. It was built by the Detroit River Tunnel Company for the M. C. R. R. at a cost of $8,500,000. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Dec, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, with a truss bridge and buildings in the background. Printed on verso: The Detroit River Tunnel, has the unique distinction of being the only tunnel of its type ever built. It was constructed in sections, all work being done from the surface of the water without the use of compressed air. The Tunnel is operated electronically. Construction was started October 1, 1906, and completed July 1, 1910. The length from portal to portal is 1 3/8 miles, and from summit of grade 2 ½ miles. It was built by the Detroit River Tunnel Company for the M. C. R. R. at a cost of $8,500,000. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jan 19, 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken overlooking a rail yard off the west side of the Vermont Street bridge. Workers are working on tracks near the bottom center of the image. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "[...]2, Looking W. from Vermont St. Bridge, 4/17/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Large black and white panoramic photograph printed on cardstock depicting engines numbers 1, 2, 4, and 3 of the Detroit Terminal Railroad all in a row. Henry Ford poses is in the cab of engine #1, James Couzens is in the cab of the engine #2, W.D. Trump is in engine #4, and P.H. Nolan posed in engine #3. Other men in conductor outfits and suits pose along the tracks.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Photograph. Sepia-toned photo showing a group of men who are standing beside railroad boxcar that is partly tipped over. Handwritten text on the lower edge of the photo shows "A split switch. Volunteer switchmen, May, 1920." Evidently, a switch malfunctioned which caused the wheel truck at the right end of the boxcar to come off the tracks while the wheel truck at the left end appears to still be on the tracks. The photo was probably taken at a Michigan Central railroad yard near Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Black & white photographic print depicting Michigan Central Station as seen from railroad tracks looking northwest.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an electric train engine with men crowded onto it at the Windsor entrance to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. Printed on verso: Electric Engine, Detroit, Mich. The Detroit River Tunnel was built for the M. C. R. R. at a cost of $8,500,000. It is 1 3/8 miles in length. Construction was started in July 1906 and completed July 1, 1910. Electricity, the third rail system, furnishes the motive power for the engines. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 20, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken along the tracks northwest the Detroit portals of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel during its construction. A Hocking Valley car is on the left, and on the right is a Michigan Central Railroad flatcar loaded with rails from the Mays Creek right-of-way which were being removed to make room for the new tunnel approach. Richard L. Aylward's coal business on Vermont Street stands beside the tracks on the right. The Vermont Street Bridge and Porter Street Bridge run overhead in the background. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "137-6, Westerly Open Cut. W. from Portal, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services