Railroads That Served Detroit Late 1940's ?

Did the Big Four go there? Then the was/is the DT&I and GTW.

Michigan Central/NYC.

GTW/CN

Rusty

I believe the Wabash came to the old Union Depot downtown, along with the Pere Marquette/C&O.  NYC, GTW, DT&I as mentioned and possibly a couple others as well.

Here's a pretty neat interactive map / application.

http://www.michiganrailroads.c.../1940s/Lower1946.htm

Can see from 46 to 47 PM went to C&O. 

Based on this, it was PM/C&O, GTW, MC/NYC... It does show PRR from Detroit to Romulus, but wonder if this is DT&I (which I think was a sub of PRR during that time)?  There "other" as well... D&M, DTS, Wabash? 

The B&O ran 'The Ambassador' from Washington, D.C. to Detroit for many years.

Here we go... even better data on Detroit specifically-

http://www.michiganrailroads.c...etroit-1931-1946.htm

http://www.michiganrailroads.c...40s/Detroit-1947.htm

http://www.michiganrailroads.c...etroit-1948-1961.htm

NYC, GTM, PM/C&O, Det. Term., DT&I, Wabash, PRR

That's a great website; it would be fabulous to find that format of rail history with maps for other states!

A copy of the September, 1951, Ofiicial Guide lists the following:

Baltimore & Ohio (b)

Canadian Pacific (b)

Chesapeake & Ohio (a)

Detroit & Toledo Shore Line !

Detroit Terminal !

Detroit Toledo & Ironton !

Grand Trunk (c)

New York Central (b)

Pennsylvania (a)

Wabash (a)

a and b 1-5/8 miles apart

a and c 7/8 miles apart

b and c 2-1/4 miles apart

! - Freight only.

To answer your second question, PRR had a branch to Detroit running from Toledo Jct, west of Mansfield, Oh, via Corrothers and Toledo.

Thanks for all the info, guys!

I have been planning for some years now to model the railroad operations of Henry Ford's River Rouge Complex in Dearborn. Been slowly finding/seeking equipment and storing them. Now I better know what I shoud be looking for.

Jim

You are going to need alot of real estate to model that plant.  You have the big C&O yard on the east side and the DT&I on the north side.  NYC had access on the west side and north side.  They would deliver coke to Ford's...

Marty

I believe the plant also had some locomotives of its own.